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In addition to the reporting by Connecticut Public Radio that appears below, Connecticut Public Television has produced two video series that focus on manufacturing in our state:Made in Connecticut profiles some of Connecticut's local manufacturing businesses, from high-tech to handmade.Making the Future introduces us to some Connecticut youth pursuing careers in manufacturing and the trades. This series was produced as part of the American Graduate: Getting to Work project with support form the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

What's Up With Stuff?

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Seventeen days after a garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, a woman was pulled alive from the rubble. But more than 1,000 people have been confirmed dead in the tragedy.

This has renewed questions about where all the stuff we buy in America comes from.

NPR’s Planet Money has been trying to tackle this question for the last three years by making their own t-shirt.

We’ll be joined by Alex Blumberg, who recently addressed one of the big listener questions:

“What’s the holdup? You’ve been talking about this project for a long time now," he asked. "Well - there were some mistakes in the beginning.”

We’ll talk about those mistakes and about what they’ve discovered so far. And we’ll try to tackle the question of “Where does our stuff come from?" "Where is it made?" "By whom?" "How does it get here?"

We want to hear from you - do you care where your stuff comes from? 

Tucker Ives is WNPR's morning news producer.
Catie Talarski is Senior Director of Storytelling and Radio Programming at Connecticut Public.

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