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[narrator]
Beginning in the 1980s and '90s, furniture makers had quietly begun
shifting much of their production to Asia. [Powell] Furniture is like a lot of other industries
in that it chases low labor rates
Beginning in the 1980s and '90s, furniture makers had quietly begun
shifting much of their production to Asia. [Powell] Furniture is like a lot of other industries
in that it chases low labor rates
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[narrator]
Beginning in the 1980s and '90s,
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furniture makers had quietly begun
shifting much of their production to Asia.
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[Powell] Furniture is like
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a lot of other industries
in that it chases low labor rates.
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Influencer hype and marketing create conditions where counterfeit makeup thrives, teens become addicted to vaping, disposable furniture kills, and corporations use of single use plastics are the stories told in this 4 part series.