Liz Claiborne's efforts began after a watchdog group revealed that one of its sweater factories in Honduras employed 13-year-olds working 12-hour days.
Maria and her children became legal residents, her husband returned to stay and she started working in a sweater factory.
He has a job, earning $30 a week at a sweater factory, and has begun saving money so he can move to Mexico City.
Maria Espinau, a Dominican immigrant who works in a sweater factory, said she was mystified and hurt by the city's ordering of priorities.
A large sweater factory is expected to soon start exporting.
Meg's first independent mural was painted on the front of a sweater factory that no longer exists, owned by a man that is now her husband.
At the old Rheingold Brewery site, a sweater factory is to open.
First, community groups protested outside the sweater factory for not paying overtime.
His mother was Hungarian; his father, who worked in and eventually took over his father's sweater factory, was of Polish origin.
He settled in Elmhurst, Queens, and found a job in a sweater factory.