If a $14 dollar shirt will only cost $16 made in the US, then the textile market is a lot different from anything I have seen.
C.N.N. I agree with you. But can you get those living on the dole now to do the jobs? My plant pays north of $15 an hour, and we can't get people. This in an area with high unemployment. The reason? People get paid not to work, why would they go on shift?
Once you have been off work for eight months or so, it is hard to get them back.
The analysis is with $40.00 per hour workers in the US vs. virtually free Bangladesh labor. The other assumption was it takes 5 minutes of total labor to sew one shirt.
What Does that $14 shirt really cost?
See post Post 52