Sweatshops in America? Now that's crazy! Right?

Lately I have been reading a novel called Boys without names. It is about an 11 year old boy named Gopal who used to lived in India, Gopal and his family have to "run away" from their home town to escape from too much debt. They need to take a different train since the fare for the trains raised. The train took them too a new city where Gopal and his family must find their uncle's house and get more money. This all leads up to when Baba goes missing and then Gopal meets a boy who promises Gopal a job in a factory. The boy tricks Gopal and sells him to a sweat shop where Gopal is forced to make beautiful beaded frames. If he does not make them he is punished horribly, such as being starved or being hit. Some people thinks that these sweatshops only occur in worse off countries like India or Nepal. But actually these can occur in any country, even the United States can be involved in scandals like this. In my opinion when I found out about how these could happen anywhere it made me really upset. I mean, it was horrible to know that these things happen to people our age. I found an article on a scandal that happened involving a talk show host called Kathie Lee Gifford. Here is the link to it.
What do you think after reading this article?

Here is a picture of Kathie Lee.