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 Salman paid a visit in search of hope for the future.

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. You used to say when I was a kid cool as a moose.

Not exactly your grandparents shop class here at Cincinnati State Technical and Community

College.

The students have two semesters to design and build this.

Semester one, they design everything you're sitting on.

Zane Decker now runs part of the program he himself recently graduated from.

Teaching skills much in demand

these days. And let's go ahead and look at the simulation, see how it looks. Schools like Cincinnati

State are key training grounds to prepare students for manufacturing jobs for which there

just aren't enough workers these days, like a GE aviation that partnered of this program. The job gap is especially important here in Ohio, America's third most manufacturing heavy

state.

Demand is just skyrocketing for this.

And if you went back 20 years ago, there was as much demand as there is today.

That tool right there, it's called an eighth inch ball mill.

Demand for the likes of 20-year-old

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