Community colleges gear up to train workers for America’s proposed manufacturing future
Amna Nawaz:
In the next decade, millions of manufacturers in the next decade, millions of manufacturing jobs will open up in the U.S. as workers retire. Meanwhile, the sector is also supposed to add more jobs with help from federal subsidies.
But, by some current estimates, only half of those jobs will be filled. So where will the workers needed come from? Well, how about some two-year colleges like Cincinnati State?
Our economics correspondent, Paul Solman, paid a visit in search of hope for the future.
Zane Decker, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College: It had to have three wheels. It had to be a gas motor, and it has to have a wheelie bar, because these things do wheelies.
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