A new study by researchers at the University of Texas estimates there are more than 300-thousand victims of labor and sex trafficking in Texas.
The study’s authors caution that their figures, which include nearly 80-thousand children and young people coerced into prostitution, are on the conservative side.
The U-T study focused on people in Texas who work involuntarily in the sex industry or as laborers for cleaning services, in restaurant kitchens, on farms or even in nail salons.
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