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Major Apparel Brands Owe Billions to Their Suppliers in Low-Income Countries

When it comes to paying low-wage laborers, fast fashion is taking it slow

Marker Editors
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2 min readMar 2, 2021

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Number Crunch logo next to the text “$22 Billion: Amount that clothing brands owe their supplier factories. Source: Workers Rights Consortium” and above silhouette illustrations of workers at sewing stations.

$22 billion: That’s how much major apparel brands owe their supplier factories, according to Workers Rights Consortium findings cited by Vox. The impact of this…

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