Fed Money EYED for shelters for sex trafficking survivors

U.S. authorities have long considered human-trafficking to be a foreign problem, and as a result U.S.-focused efforts against such sexual
exploitation have to battle a serious lack of safe shelter for victims.

But local governments in cities such as Portland, Ore., and Seattle have begun to coordinate their responses with nonprofit groups, and Uncle
Sam may also get into the game.

"Too many think that sex trafficking is only a problem in foreign countries. But here in the U.S., an estimated 100,000 underage girls — most of them American citizens — are exploited through commercial sex each year," said Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, New York Democrat and sponsor of a bill giving block grants to meet needs specific to victims of sex trafficking.

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