According to Len Burman, "Enlightened policy should aim to make work pay and help workers adapt. Better education and training will help. But a permanent solution would create a mechanism to automatically translate economic growth into higher wages." His proposal, inspired by Social Security, would dedicate a new tax to boost stagnating wages. Read his article, "A Tax Credit to Give Middle-Class Workers a Raise," on the Tax Policy Center's TaxVox blog. 08/03/17