State and local government agencies that deliver social services — from the department of health to the education department — must sometimes grapple with troubling issues. Among the most concerning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Traffick Jam, a Mercer University student-organization, has been working to drive out sex trafficking in Macon since 2015. Since ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) introduced the National Human Trafficking Database Act. That act would establish a national human ...

One of the latest trends in data science is driving an initiative to combat a significant challenge: human trafficking. Researchers at Stanford University are weaving together the threads of ...

My guest today is Hicham Oudghiri, co-founder and CEO of Enigma. I first met Hicham years ago, when Enigma was mainly focused on collecting public data sets. Now it has expanded into private data sets ...

The University of South Florida St. Petersburg campus is now home to the state's main database for human trafficking data. A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May names the Trafficking in Persons ...

The State Department estimates that as many as 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year with about half of those children. These individuals, about 80 percent female, are ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force gathered Thursday at the Charleston County Government building to hear about new research collected over the past three years ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio has announced a new tool for combating human trafficking in the state. During a meeting of the governor’s Human Trafficking Task Force, the Ohio Department of Public ...

In order to combat human trafficking effectively, those combating it must understand it — and these days, that means data. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons there is no convenient index of ...

Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa maintain a safe distance as a machine is moved on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers ...

Editor’s Note: Jonathan Hargreaves is global vice chair technology of Edelman Predictive Intelligence Centre. Ruth Dearnley is CEO of Stop the Traffik. The opinions expressed in this commentary are ...