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By Crystal McGough
CLAY – The Clay City Council unanimously approved Proclamation 2021-01 at its regular meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 12, recognizing January 2021 as Human Trafficking Awareness Month.
According to The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, nctsn.org, “January was first declared as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month in 2010.”
City Manager Ronnie Dixon updated the council on the city’s preparations to host the first Alabama Open in pickleball.
“We have proceeded on with that and had a meeting this week with the director of the state pickleball association,” Dixon said. “We ordered some nets for the courts that are on the tennis courts so that they will be the championship-type nets and we’re moving forward with creating a festival feeling, I guess is the best way to put it. They were very excited about having the food court area, the carnival, of course the updated bathroom trailers instead of just porta potties.”
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January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Human trafficking has existed in one form or another since the beginning of time. It is a devastating crime that exists in the shadows of society. This is a vastly under reported crime and a crime which is as difficult to investigate as it can be to detect.
Every year, millions of men, women and children are trafficked around the world, including the United States. Human trafficking is unfortunately a profitable criminal enterprise generating billions of dollars in profit off the backs of vulnerable people. Human trafficking is second only to drug trafficking in terms of profits. When people sell drugs, the drugs are consumed and are then gone. Human traffickers are able to sell their victims repeatedly. Traffickers use physical force, fraud and coercion to lure and force victims into the human trafficking trade. Victims rarely come forward for help for a variety of reasons, including fear and sometimes embarrassment
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WASHINGTON Congress is set to pass a massive bipartisan emergency relief bill that’s intended to aid Americans affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Summaries from House Democratic appropriators say it includes:
DIRECT CHECKS $166 billion in another round of economic impact payments that will go directly to Americans. $600 stimulus checks for individuals that begin phasing out at an income of $75,000 and $1,200 for married couples phasing out at an income of $150,000, as well as $600 for each child dependent. Language stating that taxpayers without a Social Security number are ineligible to receive stimulus payments unless married to a spouse that has a Social Security number or children with them. This provision fixes a problem in the first Covid-19 relief bill that excluded stimulus payments to families that included both citizens and undocumented people.