One of those industries is the cut-and-sew garment business. The industry employs about 265,000 workers nationally, of whom 42% were born outside the U.S. (the highest in the nation). It also had the ...

Over the last 20 years, the Consumer Price Index for all items has increased by 63.5% (see red line in chart above), while the price of clothing measured by the CPI for apparel has fallen by 3.3% ...