public knowledge who canceled, so we had a list of companies and the amount of money they owed, but we needed a bigger picture of what was happening.” Because of this, the testimony of garment workers themselves has been critical to the success of PayUp. In November 2020, the Worker Rights Consortium released a survey (https://www.workersrights.org/wpcontent/uploads/2020/11/Hunger-in-the-ApparelSupply-Chain.pdf) of garment workers who had lost their jobs across Cambodia, Bangladesh, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Indonesia, Lesotho and Myanmar. Nearly 75 percent of these workers reported going into debt to buy food since the pandemic began. Many described skipping meals in order to feed their families, being unable to a ord food with protein, and having to withdraw their children from school due to lack of funds. Garment workers who remained employed, many of whom were working overtime to produce personal protective equipment for countries in the West, were similarly plunged into destitution. Even as the world’s most pro table fashion brands saw an 11 percent increase in value over the past year, garment workers experienced pay cuts averaging around 21 percent.