Modern Day Slavery Exisits in America

Many Americans may think of modern day slavery as existing exclusively within the informal service sector in far off lands — usually sex slavery or domestic servitude — and thus do not consider it to be a problem related to free trade, or America at all. Although countries with large informal sectors are more likely to be a source of slave labor, Americans would be shocked to learn that, not only does modern day slavery exist in America, but there are plenty of goods consumed in this country that were made with slave labor somewhere along a complex global supply chain. Shrimp imported from Bangladesh and Thailand, found at Costco, and some textiles from India are just some of the examples that Lagon cited.

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