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SOCIAL SERVICES / SEX TRAFFICKING PREVENTION

“When it comes to sex workers, we can’t arrest our way out of the problem.”

Legislator, outreach workersseek to help young

Salt Lake City women at risk

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With buyback help, Yahoo stockhas soared under Mayer

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“This is an undervaluedcompany if you do a sum of

the parts sort of thing.”

he National Human Trafficking Re-source Center handles calls, e-mails andwebsite contacts claiming human traf-ficking in every state. They say the prob-

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–Rep. Sandra Hollins

number of contacts rose to 117, resulting in 10cases. In 2014 the number of contacts rose again,to 121, but the resulting cases rose to 22. So farin 2015, the Center has received 37 contactsresulting in 8 cases.

Rep. Sandra Hollins (D, District 23, NorthSalt Lake) and Gina Salazar worked togetheron an outreach team for Volunteers ofAmerica. Rep. Hollins is a Homeless Out-reach Team Supervisor. “Sandra was myboss,” Salazar says. “We would go out on thestreets with Phil Taylor, who is head of the 4thStreet Clinic Medical Outreach Team. He waslooking for homeless people who needed

medical attention. We were looking for youngpeople who were at risk of becoming involvedin sex trafficking.”

Rep. Hollins says her team would also goout and work in the homeless shelters. “Downaround the shelters we would often noticeyoung girls hanging out,” she adds. “Whenwe talked to them we found that some of themwere homeless and some were not. But theywere there because the homeless men at theshelter played to their low self-esteem and gavethem attention. That meant they were at riskfor whatever activities were going on. And

lem is underreported because victims are oftentoo afraid to seek help. But some still try toreach out. Between the end of December of2007 and June 30, 2015, the Center has received417 contacts originating in or referencing Utah.Those contacts resulted in 73 cases involving 99victims.

In all of 2012, the Center received only 42contacts which resulted in 12 cases. In 2013 the

America’s biggest gas field finally suc-cumbs to downturn – The drilling rigs aregone from the hills surrounding this Penn-sylvania town of 30,000. The hotels and barsare quieter too, no longer packed with theworkers who flocked in their thousands toAmerica’s newest and biggest gas field.

nvestors who made early bets on MarissaMayer’s ability to turn around Yahoo Incwere well rewarded for their faith: the shareprice has more than doubled and widely

–Kim Forrest

outperformed the broader stock market sinceshe took over as president and CEO in July2012.

But those still betting on her may have lin-gered too long as the stock nearly halved fromNovember 2014 to last September. Much ofthe long upward trajectory was funded by anaggressive share buyback program and itsstakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan.

The board of Yahoo is weighing a sale of itscore Internet business when it meets this week

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Private payrolls, compensation datapoint to sturdy jobs market – U.S. privateemployers boosted hiring in November andwage growth appeared to pick up in the thirdquarter, signs of labor market strength thatcould support the first Federal Reserve inter-est rate increase in nearly a decade later thismonth.

Cabela’s exploring strategic alterna-tives – U.S. hunting and fishing store chainCabela’s Inc, under pressure from investorElliott Associates, is exploring a sale and otherstrategic alternatives.

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Quicken may quit US home-loan pro-gram in dispute over bad mortgages –Quicken Loans, the third biggest mortgagelender in the U.S., is considering backing awayfrom a government program that providedcritical support to the housing market duringthe financial crisis, the latest in an exodus ofbig lenders from the program.

Yellen says “looking forward” to dayof rate hike – Federal Reserve Chair JanetYellen said on Wednesday she was “lookingforward” to a U.S. interest rate hike that willbe seen as a testament to the economy’s re-covery from recession.

Target in $39.4 million settlementwith banks over data breach – Target Corphas agreed to pay $39.4 million to resolveclaims by banks that said they lost moneybecause of the retailer’s late 2013 data breach.

The preliminary settlement was filed onWednesday with the federal court in St. Paul,Minnesota, and requires court approval.

Continued on page A-12Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo, participates in a panel discussion at the2015 Fortune Global FOrum in San Francisco, California Nov. 3, 2015. REUTERS