U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk “announced a new initiative to assist post-earthquake recovery efforts in Haiti.  The initiative, called the Plus 1 for Haiti Program, will encourage U.S. brands and retailers to work toward sourcing 1 percent of their total apparel production from Haiti....‘One percent may seem small [said Kirk] but it means new jobs and new opportunities for the Haitian people....’”
–Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Press Release, February 22, 2010

Haitian garment workers “make the new ‘outsourcing’ minimum wage of 125 gourdes a day, about $3.09 -- approximately the same as the minimum wage in 1984 and worth less than half its previous purchasing power.”
–Associated Press, February 21, 2010