Title: Planet Money: Technology, Subsidies, and Cotton
Course: Indiana Economics Sample Syllabus > Section: Unit 8: Trade

Chances are you’re wearing something made from cotton. This story tracks down the source of the cotton that went into a T-shirt. A spinning mill in Indonesia is where the fabric may have been made, but the cotton fields of Mississippi is where the cotton may have been grown. Why would a textile mill in Indonesia buy cotton from the United States? Listen to find out how technology and subsidies give American cotton farmers an advantage in international trade.