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Planet Money Explores The Economics Of T-Shirts
Our Planet Money team is making a T-shirt and following the shirt around the world as it gets manufactured — from the farms where the cotton is grown to the factories where the shirts are sewn...
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Two Sisters, A Small Room And The World Behind A T-Shirt
The rise of factory jobs in Bangladesh has brought profound cultural changes to the country — and to the lives of two sisters who made the Planet Money T-shirt.(Image credit: Kainaz Amaria/NPR)
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'Our Industry Follows Poverty': Success Threatens A T-Shirt Business
Colombia's economy has been growing, and wages have been rising. That's good for the country as a whole, but it may wind up driving away the T-shirt industry.(Image credit: Joshua Davis for NPR)
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Nixon And Kimchi: How The Garment Industry Came To Bangladesh
The business that transformed the nation is the product of an obscure but hugely influential trade deal — and a cultural struggle over Korean food.(Image credit: Kainaz Amaria/NPR)
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The Giant Book That Creates And Destroys Entire Industries
The book lists the tax that importers have to pay on approximately every single thing in the universe — and raises a key question about the Planet Money T-shirt.(Image credit: Eric Helton for NPR)
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The Afterlife Of American Clothes
The U.S. exports a billion pounds of used clothes every year. Much of that winds up in used clothing markets in sub-Saharan Africa.(Image credit: Sarah Elliott for NPR)
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How Technology And Hefty Subsidies Make U.S. Cotton King
NPR's Planet Money team is manufacturing its own T-shirt. More than 25,000 of the shirts were sold online. And then the team set out to follow the process around the globe. All this week, we'll hear...
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Planet Money Spins A Yarn And Makes A 'Perfect' T-Shirt
NPR's Planet Money team has manufactured a T-shirt. All this week we're following its journey around the globe. Today, the T-shirt makes a detour in the Pacific Ocean. Cotton from America gets shipped...
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Next Stop Bangladesh As We Follow Planet Money's T-Shirt
Bangladesh is the cheapest place in the world to make a T-shirt. But this month, the minimum wage there will rise from $39 a month to $68 a month. That's got some factory owners nervous about whether...
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Meet The Humble Container That Moves The Global Economy
NPR's Planet Money team is manufacturing its own T-shirt. After the women's shirt was assembled in Colombia, they voyaged by container ship to Miami. The container, a big standardized box that moves...
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Planet Money T-Shirt Exposes Issues Of Work, Trade And Clothes
All this week, All Things Considered and Morning Edition has aired stories about the global journey a T-shirt makes from seed to finished product. Over the months NPR's Planet Money team spent...
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