March 1, 2015
National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC)
Between 1/1/2014 and 12/31/2014, the NHTRC hotline received reports of 5,042 potential human trafficking cases believed to be occurring in the United States. 70 of these cases (1.4%) involved labor trafficking in the agriculture and animal husbandry industries. The following report is based on these cases.