California clothing manufacturers flee minimum wage hike

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A little local news from California. The apparel manufacturing industry is already looking to move out of the state as it introduces a $15 minimum wage. Hit by rising commercial rents and supply chain costs, the state’s home grown clothes-makers are looking further afield. American Apparel, the famed ? or perhaps infamous ? US-made brand, said it would outsource and but 500 jobs in California. “The exodus has begun,” said an economist.