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The global costs of modern day slavery, calculated but he US Congress.

It distorts labor market, it destroys people, it rots communities,and it undermines stabilities unruled a law and fueled by corruption, greed and violence.

Human Trafficking, as a 150 billion dollars industry worldwide and more than half of the 20 million people trafficked globally are women and girls.

Just weeks after the Trump administration add China to a list of the worst offenders that includes Russian, Iran and Syria.

Lawmakers pledged funds to a fight goes beyond national borders,money that as a very real impact on the lives of trafficking survivors.

You need resources let the resources that are being reauthorized on the heel to insure the survivors have basic needs like housing, food, access to consoling, access to legal representation.

When someone’s been through trafficking, it’s a kinder slavery they’ve lost, everything.

Powell, who works with survivors around the world says the problem is widespread.

We all see trafficking and don’t realize it.

A harsh reality that brought the problem close to members of Congress.Most folks think that the problem is far away from their home.They think it’s maybe overseas or in a different country or in an urban city or round big events but we’re finding it everywhere.

One of the earliest voiced in Congress to speak up about human trafficking,representative Chris Smith says the bill takes innovative approaches to the problem.

The profit that are clinging by the traffickers, once we arrest them, we can assess those assets and put them into a victims fund.

And put countries worldwide on notice.

We’ll make sure that if it’s a foreign country,we don’t give them military assistants unless they can get a handle on their human trafficking.

The represents Huston, one the epicenters of human trafficking in the United States.

Huston is a teeming metropolis,there are many places that can be used as shadow of a business but they are playing for human trafficking.

And these trafficking victims are vulnerable, they’re scared and they speak a different language and they are victims.And human trafficking is a scourge, that is a black on all of us.

A reminder of the fight is far from over.

Katherine Gypson, Capitol Hill, VOA News.