Mike Rowe: Bringing Manufacturing Back to America Faces Another Hurdle—A Shortage of Skilled Labor

If Trump does manage to bring manufacturing back to America, he’s going to run into another problem, says “Dirty Jobs” host Mike Rowe: a lack of skilled labor in those trades.

"I just think, on a broad level, we have to understand what we did to incite this. We took shop class out of high school.

…And what we did when we took it out was not just shortchange that cohort of kids who might have seen something in the vocational world that made sense to their brain.

What we did was we removed those jobs from sight for everybody…If you don't create some kind of enthusiasm for the very jobs you're determined to create, then you're going to wind up in a pretty nasty feedback loop." - Mike Rowe