The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking has pressed Congress to increase funding for critical anti-trafficking programs both at home and overseas. Coalition member organizations worked together to determine a comprehensive package of the most crucial funding requests to improve U.S....
Month: April 2021
Trafficking Survivors Should Not Pay Income Tax When They Win in Court
The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking supports a simple but necessary change to America’s federal tax code. The “Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act” (S. 895) would exempt from federal income taxes any restitution or civil damage awards that survivors receive. This...
ATEST Calls on Senate to make Significant Changes to Farm Workforce Modernization Act
WASHINGTON -- The Farm Workforce Modernization Act (FWMA, H.R. 1603), as currently constituted, strikes an unacceptable compromise between the pathway to citizenship that all farmworkers deserve, and expansion of an H-2A visa program marked by abuses ranging from gender discrimination...