Time to Celebrate! 2 Important Victories in the Fight to End Modern-Day Slavery

by Eileen Campbell / Topic: modern day slavery; victory; Congress; advocacy January 24, 2014
Many people celebrated last Thursday when Congress reached a bipartisan budget agreement. Avoiding another government shutdown is surely reason to be thankful, but at IJM, we donned our party hats for another reason, too. You see, within the multi-trillion dollar U.S. federal budget, there is a tiny line item that we care about a lot: the budget for the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP Office). Their budget represents just .0007% of the total federal budget, but they orchestrate all U.S. government efforts to combat slavery worldwide. Last week, Congress voted to substantially increase the TIP Office’s budget. Read More