A Simple Graph Showing the American Manufacturing Worker Is Suddenly an Incredible Bargain

Atlantic: Showing the American Manufacturing Worker Is Suddenly an Incredible Bargain

This month's Atlantic magazine predicts that we are on the verge of a U.S.-based manufacturing renaissance, as companies see the advantages to making more goods at home, such as more control over the final product, lower energy costs from moving goods across an ocean, and a falling "wage gap."

Simply put, U.S. factory workers are a much better deal than they were just ten years ago. …