Foxconn, a Taiwanese electronics supplier, plans to build a $10 billion factory in Wisconsin. And the project is expected to create 3,000 jobs right away, and then eventually 22,000 more. And President Trump encouraged residents in upstate New York to move to other states to find manufacturing jobs. So will people pick up and move to Wisconsin for these jobs? 

Patricia Cohen, New York Times reporter on national economy and author of In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age, talks about the long history of moving for work in America, and explains why people don’t seem to be moving around as much as they once did. And listeners call in with their own stories about migrating for a job and whether it was worth it or not.