Jordan Brown

1. Bangladesh textile workers work in one of the hardest working environments in the
world. The passage directly states, “with over 160 million poor people in a country five
times smaller than Texas.” This excerpt is very bad. Especially when almost 90% of these
people are very poor, and need a place to work. And what better place to work at the one
of the million textile mills in Bangladesh! This means you have so many people working
at a place where the living conditions are described as, “forced to suffer both physical and
verbal abuse from supervisors.” This is only some of their problems.

2. American and European clothing groups don’t want to make their own clothes. This
happens because, “retailers can simply go to any other desperately poor country or
another factory.” And Bangladesh is one of those poor countries.

3. The reason why the Bangladeshi government is so poor is that the passage perfectly
states, “Most people in Bangladesh are too poor to pay income taxes.” This excerpt
perfectly answers the question.

4. The government tax problem, “The government has the added problem that they take in
so little in taxes.” means that they can’t afford to pay for real inspections on the textile
factory.

5. The passage states, “The government in Bangladesh, like most others in South Asia,
suffers from corruption.” with a corrupt government that doesn’t have enough people to
pay taxes can barely afford good water treatments.

6. The passage states,”some manufacturers have invested in automation, improving

efficiency using more machines instead of labor. This means less jobs for desperate
people.” This shows that without people labor, the government will only go into more
poverty.

7. The textile industry will end up running Bangladesh into the ground. The textile industry
is causing rivers to be polluted (the text states) and more people to be unhealthy and
injured.