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Economics Professor: Trump's Carrier Deal Addresses Only Part Of The Problem

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Air conditioning units are stacked outside the Carrier Corporation plant, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, in Indianapolis. (Darron Cummings/AP)
Air conditioning units are stacked outside the Carrier Corporation plant, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, in Indianapolis. (Darron Cummings/AP)

President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence travel to Indiana Thursday to announce the details of a deal with Carrier that will save about half of the 2,100 jobs the manufacturer planned to move to Mexico.

But there is no shortage of manufacturing jobs in the state, according to Michael Hicks, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at Ball State University (@BallStateCBER).

Here & Now's Robin Young hears more from Hicks about what Indiana needs most.

This segment aired on December 1, 2016.

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