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Podcast: The Invisible Americans
Episode: Melanie Thompson on her Experience with Child Sex Trafficking | Megan Curran Updates Us On the Child Tax Credit
Description: In this episode, we discuss child trafficking and child abuse. If you or someone you know needs help, call the Center for Missing & Exploited Children at 800-843-5678. Please listen with care.
Our hosts first talk to Melanie Thompson about her firsthand experience with child sex trafficking. She discusses not only how she was trafficked, but how systemic gaps in the foster care system make it easy to exploit those children.
Then they speak with Megan Curran, policy director at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. She updates us on the...