President Barack Obama challenged manufacturers in his State of the Union address to "ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country."

Their answer may be: less than you think, Mr. President.

Rising wages in China and new tax incentives at home won't be enough to reverse the long-term erosion in U.S. manufacturing employment, even as some U.S. companies return production to shuttered Rust Belt plants.

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