. >> ganesan subbaiah had to come up with two thousand five hundred dollars. at the time, he earned two dollars a day. >> ganesan paid for a job in afghanistan with a subcontractor called prime projects international, or ppi. but ppi sent him to an american base in an entirely different country.

. >> ganesan subbaiah had to come up with two thousand five hundred dollars. at the time, he earned two dollars a day. >> ganesan paid for a job in afghanistan with a subcontractor called prime projects international, or ppi. but ppi sent him to an american base in an entirely different country. >> rajesh kumar worked at camp dwyer in afghanistan, making seven hundred eighty dollars per month. but in a year's work there, he only earned about two thousands dollars. the rest - seventy five percent of his wages - went towards the loan to pay the agent. >> rajesh was strung along by five successive agents, each of whom charged an additional fee. >> the department of defense requires contractors to ask workers whether they paid recruitment fees. but it isn't hard to see why few people are comfortable telling the truth. >> did the contractors not know that their employees were trapped in debt? or did they condone these abuses because they benefitted in some way? to figure that out, we had to retrace the path of these workers - to the city nearly everyone had traveled

. >> ganesan subbaiah had to come up with two thousand five hundred dollars. at the time, he earned two dollars a day. >> ganesan paid for a job in afghanistan with a subcontractor called prime projects international, or ppi. but ppi sent him to an american base in an entirely different country. >> rajesh kumar worked at camp dwyer in afghanistan, making seven hundred eighty dollars per month. but in a year's work there, he only earned about two thousands dollars. the rest - seventy five percent of his wages - went towards the loan to pay the agent. >> rajesh was strung along by five successive agents, each of whom charged an additional fee. >> the department of defense requires contractors to ask workers whether they paid recruitment fees. but it isn't hard to see why few people are comfortable telling the truth. >> did the contractors not know that their employees were trapped in debt? or did they condone these abuses because they benefitted in some way? to figure that out, we had to retrace the path of these workers - to the city nearly everyone had traveled