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Research Scholar Sarah Labowitz points to the recent Matrix Sweater fire as a sign of persistent safety issues in Bangladeshi factories

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Excerpt from Behind the Thread -- "I think what this fire shows is that identifying problems is not enough. There's a big debate about who pays for factory repairs. I think in October of 2014, the Accord announced that in their preliminary 1,100 or so inspections, they've identified 80,000 violations. But how do you remediate the problems that the inspections identify? And what the factory owners say in Bangladesh is 'where's the money going to come from?'"

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