Sarah Gonzalez
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1,669 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 4d ago
Sarah Gonzalez’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the clothes that Maria works on are made in the US, in Los Angeles, California.
And a lot of people love the idea of making things like clothes in America.
One of the Trump administration's goals is to bring manufacturing in general back to the U.S.
But what people might picture when they think of a made in America future might be different from the made in America we have now.
When you start out as a garment worker, you often start out as a trimmer, like Maria.
Then you might get trained on a sewing machine.
But Maria never moved on to a machine.
She likes being a trimmer.
But really, she just likes having a job.
She's liked every job she's ever had, she says.
When she first started out trimming, she was not the best.
She'd nick the clothes, leave a little hole, but she'd show up with a little needle and thread set, hand sew it real quick.
You couldn't even tell the hole was there, she says.
And her boss loved that she could patch things up, actually.
But what the garment industry really prizes is speed.
Speed more than anything else.
And in the beginning, Maria was not so fast.
Okay, so when you first started, you were doing like 100 pieces a day, and now you're 700, 800 pieces.
800 pieces a day is a lot.
It's a lot.
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