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The Textile And Apparel Industry Essay

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The textile and apparel industry is one of the oldest and largest industries. The textile and apparel industry plays an important role in the United States manufacturing system. “Displaced textile and apparel workers, like employed textile and apparel workers, were more likely to be female than all displaced U.S. workers, and also were less likely to have a high school diploma and less likely to be a U.S. citizen” (USDA, 2014). There is one dependent variable to exemplify in this project, which is the U.S. textile employment rate and three independent variables related to the U.S. textile employment rate, including workforce gender, labor cost (wages), and ethnicity.
The eastern of the United States tends to have much more textile employed workers than in the west coast of the United States. North Carolina and South Carolina have highest textile industries employment rate. Alabama, Georgia, and New Hampshire have moderate high textile industries employment rate while Maryland, Florida, and Indiana have low textile industries employment rate. Most of the state locate at the middle part and western of the U.S. have low employment rate. States with low employment rate are Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, Maryland, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, and Minnesota.
There is a cluster of high rate of Hispanics workers in south west of the U.S. California, Arizona, New Mexico, and

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