Last night, economics correspondent Paul Salman took us inside a community college program that trains the manufacturing workers of tomorrow.

In part two tonight, we hear from employers about their efforts to recruit new talent and whether a manufacturing renaissance is really underway.

We're really suffering right now.

Suffering from a lack of workers, says Rob Lannardi, who runs operations for Meyer-Tool in suburban Cincinnati. And I've been hearing the same complaint for years.

The work is there.

Lori Joyce, a few years ago, of concrete pros in Northern Ohio.

We just need the workers.

The despairing employer soundbites have been legion.

And so too the optimistic bites from programs I've covered over the years that are trying to address the problem.

For example, even 10 years ago, South Carolina's BMW plant was doing all it could, according to one of its new recruits.

They pay for your college, first of all, so you will get a degree when you're done.

You make good money while going to college.

I just could not see anybody turning it down, really.

And yet, most young people do.

There's a vacuum there, and we are always on the lookout of bringing people in, and

even we're starting from scratch in some cases, people had no idea what they were getting

into, and they come along really well.

So America's manufacturers still can't find enough workers, despite the promise

of President-elect Donald Trump.

This new American industrialism will create millions and millions of jobs,

massively raise wages for American workers,

and make the United States into a manufacturing powerhouse like it used to be many years ago.

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