The federal government has a Constitutional mandate to direct its spending to issues that promote the "general welfare", not simply to promote business profits and "encourage" capital to share equitably. American, and world, history would show that capital doesn't share and must be regulated to do so, but regulation is complex by design and generally prone to corruption and propaganda that will always favor capital.

The answer to this is a federally funded "job guarantee" that allows any worker to obtain a public service job at a living wage with benefits at their discretion. The employers would then have to outbid the job program (administered by state and local management) to obtain workers, but they would have a stock of "employed" workers that would have their social and job skills intact.

Such a program would serve to set the lower limit of wages and benefits while also automatically providing injections of federal money during business cycle downturns. The legislation for such a program could easily include the needed increases in cost of living adjustments that would keep the potential workers from the devastation of unemployment. This provides a much-needed price stabilization as well as employment security.