in the article “Slavery’s staying power
“the author discusses the facts that there are more slaves in the world today than there were before the civil war. He estimates that there are somewhere between 12 and 27 million in the world. Most of them are women and children who need to make money. He tells a story of one little boy whose mom sold him for $15 to work in a rug making factory when he was 9. He also says that there are more people in the US involved in trafficking slavery than sexual slavery, and the US government isn’t spending enough money to try and stop the problem. He concludes by stating that for most of the people in these situations it isn’t their fault the have to pay their bills somehow and they end up in bad situations.

i agree with this piece completely. I had no idea that there were that many slaves in the world today but i do think that the US should do something more about it. when He said in the article that more than half the money for this sort of problem is going toward stopping sexual slavery i agree with him that they need to spend more on the other areas that are affecting many more people. over all i think that it is good that this man is so aware of the situation of many people in the world today and that many of them can’t help it.