# Professor Robert Salomon shares how the Trump administration can foster manufacturing jobs in the US

1 Faculty News January 2, 2017 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](http://qz.com/863121/the-origin-of-your-tv-set-is-a-simple-lesson-in-the-dangers-of-ignoring-globalization/) -- "What \[American workers\] need, says [Robert Salomon](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-salomon), a professor at New York University’s business school, is a social safety net, and new skills to qualify for the high-tech positions American companies are trying to fill these days. 'The US has to create systematic programs to retrain them for that economy of tomorrow, not yesterday,' Salomon says."

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