Dry Cleaning Costs to Climb After Roof Collapse

Surprising to many, news of today’s storm-related roof collapse at M & B Metal Products in Leeds, Ala., could result in a more-wrinkled U.S. workforce as prices climb ever higher at dry cleaning shops across the nation. Why? Because, as I reported in a post April 11, M & B is the nation’s sole remaining source of wire hangers. Who is making the hangers now? China. To learn more, see China, Feds Take Industry to the ‘Cleaners’.

-- Bob McCarty Writes