{"edition":"los-angeles","organization":"Garment Worker Center","organizationId":"org:garment-worker-center","boundaryVersion":"OMB-23-01-2023-07-21","updated":"2026-09-14","model":{"version":"la-gwc-wage-health-component-v1","costScope":"Full recipient gross annual cost; priced health limited to a wage-recovery component.","geographicAttribution":"g=.95 is a judgment about LA/Orange resident share of represented workers; employment in LA is not proof of residence.","formula":"Rnet=R*a*b; E=Rnet/k; Q=E*q*g/1.03; Price10=10*C/Q. R=878000,a=.5,b=.5,k=6000,q=.01,g=.95,C=2974158. Qportfolio=Q+Qother-H, with Qother unknown. Safety skeleton Qs=Nnew*injuryRate*.094*transfer*healthPerInjury*duration*g; Nnew and local injury bridge unknown.","counterfactual":"Existing law, DIR representation, other advocates and employer payments continue. a discounts collections that would occur anyway; b concerns future resource responsiveness, not another collection probability.","attribution":"R is collected wages and penalties, not filed claims. k defines resource-equivalent units, not an observed household size or number of people. No lifetime income or mortality extrapolation and no duplicate counting of ongoing wages.","uncertainty":"Health conversion is explicitly subjective and contested by modern randomized income evidence. Conditional component best estimate only; zero, harm and omitted policy value remain possible.","nativeOutcomes":"Central Rnet=$219,500; 36.5833 equivalents of $6,000 in incremental resources. Each receives a 0.01-QALY finite one-year prior before residence and delivery discount. These are modeled resource equivalents, not observed additional workers.","inputs":[{"name":"C","value":2974158,"unit":"USD gross annual recipient cost","basis":"observed","rationale":"Part IX plus $153503 rental expense.","sourceIds":["99024"]},{"name":"R","value":878000,"unit":"USD collected wages and penalties","basis":"observed","rationale":"Approximate organization-reported amount, not independently audited causal effect.","sourceIds":["o24"]},{"name":"a","value":0.5,"unit":"counterfactual collection attribution","basis":"judgment","rationale":"Half would not otherwise be collected or are accelerated equivalently; test .1–.9.","sourceIds":["o24","law"]},{"name":"b","value":0.5,"unit":"proportional funding response","basis":"judgment","rationale":"Contracts, capital allocation and other donors can replace resources; test .1–.8.","sourceIds":["o23","campus"]},{"name":"k","value":6000,"unit":"USD net-resource equivalent","basis":"judgment","rationale":"Normalization for a finite health prior, not observed income threshold; test 3000–12000.","sourceIds":[]},{"name":"q","value":0.01,"unit":"QALY per resource equivalent over one year","basis":"judgment","rationale":"Modest hardship-related health prior, not a cash-trial estimate; test 0–.05.","sourceIds":["cash"]},{"name":"g","value":0.95,"unit":"LA/Orange residence fraction","basis":"judgment","rationale":"Local clinic supports concentration; test .8–1.","sourceIds":["clinic"]},{"name":"d","value":0.03,"unit":"one-year delivery discount","basis":"judgment","rationale":"No repeated lifetime benefit.","sourceIds":[]},{"name":"Qother","value":null,"unit":"non-overlapping portfolio QALYs","basis":"unknown","rationale":"Safety, organizing, services and campus effects need separate causal measurement.","sourceIds":["industry","safety","campus"]}],"scenarios":[{"id":"central","label":"Conditional wage-recovery health component","costUSD":2974158,"allPopulationQalys":0.3551779935275081,"editionQalys":0.33741909385113267,"assumptions":"a=0.5;b=0.5;k=6000;q=0.01;g=0.95;d=.03. Subjective joint scenario, not a statistical bound."},{"id":"low","label":"Weak income-health translation","costUSD":2974158,"allPopulationQalys":0.0007103559870550163,"editionQalys":0.000568284789644013,"assumptions":"a=0.1;b=0.1;k=12000;q=0.001;g=0.8;d=.03. Subjective joint scenario, not a statistical bound."},{"id":"high","label":"Favorable income-health translation","costUSD":2974158,"allPopulationQalys":10.229126213592235,"editionQalys":10.229126213592235,"assumptions":"a=0.9;b=0.8;k=3000;q=0.05;g=1;d=.03. Subjective joint scenario, not a statistical bound."},{"id":"zero","label":"No incremental health","costUSD":2974158,"allPopulationQalys":0,"editionQalys":0,"assumptions":"q=0 or complete funding replacement."},{"id":"adverse","label":"Illustrative net worker harm","costUSD":2974158,"allPopulationQalys":-1,"editionQalys":-1,"assumptions":"One LA QALY lost through retaliation or displacement; not an observed estimate."},{"id":"portfolio-unknown","label":"Whole-portfolio return unestimated","costUSD":2974158,"allPopulationQalys":null,"editionQalys":null,"assumptions":"Do not use omitted benefits as zero in a complete-portfolio ranking."}],"sensitivity":["Central $88144330.13 per 10 LA QALYs; positive stress range $2907538.67–$52335696013.67.","Income-only Q=0 is consistent with plausible causal interpretations; monetary recovery remains valuable even without QALY gain.","Doubling cost for unrecognized capital/user resources doubles the positive price; capital benefits require matching multi-year attribution.","Safety-policy model needs incremental exposed worker-years, baseline injuries, local enforcement transfer and finite injury severity; no full-sector credit."],"missingInputs":["Current marginal operating versus capital allocation.","Net counterfactual collections and household consequences.","Measured utility effects of wage restitution and worker residence.","Additional safety enforcement and injuries, retaliation and displaced employment.","Completed audit, amendments and unrecognized resource values."]},"sources":[{"id":"99024","title":"2024 original Form 990; submitted November 11, 2025","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202513159349306456/IRS990","publisher":"GWC / IRS","published":"2025-11-11","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"99023","title":"2023 original Form 990","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202433189349310008/IRS990","publisher":"GWC / IRS","published":"2024-11-13","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"99022","title":"2022 original Form 990","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202323189349318597/IRS990","publisher":"GWC / IRS","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"o24","title":"2024 accomplishments and unfinished audit disclosure","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202513159349306456/IRS990ScheduleO","publisher":"GWC / IRS","published":"2025-11-11","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"o23","title":"2023 public partnership and program history","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202433189349310008/IRS990ScheduleO","publisher":"GWC / IRS","published":"2024-11-13","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"d24","title":"2024 Schedule D","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/202513159349306456/IRS990ScheduleD","publisher":"GWC / IRS","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"clinic","title":"Current wage clinic","url":"https://garmentworkercenter.org/wage-clinic/","publisher":"GWC","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"campus","title":"Justice Campus: state-funded acquisition and planned renovations","url":"https://garmentworkercenter.org/justice-campus/","publisher":"GWC","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"industry","title":"Current industry program","url":"https://garmentworkercenter.org/lagfip/","publisher":"GWC","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"report","title":"Building a Sustainable and Equitable Garment Industry in California","url":"https://garmentworkercenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Building-a-Sustainable-and-Equitable-Garment-Industry-in-California-RBG.pdf","publisher":"GWC","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"resources","title":"Current worker resources","url":"https://garmentworkercenter.org/resources/digital-resources/","publisher":"GWC","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"law","title":"Existing SB62 baseline","url":"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Garment/","publisher":"California DIR","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"cash","title":"Randomized income and health evidence","url":"https://www.openresearchlab.org/findings/nber-working-paper-health","publisher":"Miller and colleagues / OpenResearch","published":"2024-07-21","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"safety","title":"Randomized safety inspection evidence","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22605775/","publisher":"Levine and colleagues / Science","published":"2012-05-18","retrieved":"2026-09-14"},{"id":"donate","title":"Ordinary recipient donation page","url":"https://garmentworkercenter.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/contribute/transact?id=1&reset=1","publisher":"GWC","published":null,"retrieved":"2026-09-14"}]}