This finding directly reinforces the Garment Worker Center’s 2021 claim that 85 percent of L.A.’s garment workers experience wage theft. Workers interviewed by the Guardian in 2021 spoke about drawing wages as low as $6 per hour—well under the prevailing minimum wage in Los Angeles, which is the center of the country’s garment production industry (California also employs the most garment workers of any state, with forty thousand in Los Angeles alone).
