The Trump administration wants to pivot back to a more manufacturing-based workforce. When President Donald Trump announced tariffs on foreign countries in April, he said, “Jobs in factories will come roaring back into our country.” But are American workers prepared for this shift? Martin Eichenbaum is a former steel worker and the Charles Moskos professor of economics at Northwestern University. He joins Soledad O’Brien in studio to look at the history of factory work and what it reveals about the future.
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