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    The Cheapest Place to Make a T-Shirt

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    Making a T-shirt takes a lot of time, but it can be made cheaply. The origins of your T-shirts probably come from Mississippi, where cotton is grown, and the shirts were probably spun in Indonesia. In this story, reporters track the assembly of a T-shirt to Bangladesh and try to understand why that Asian country […]

    Posted bynpr_h1dlv5September 23, 2019September 24, 2019Posted inSpecialization

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