Eliminate welfare and other subsidies and make those with “education” loans start paying. Then, the price mechanism will find the honest level of wages. Employers can’t compete for workers with higher wages when the government makes it too easy for people to stay unemployed through “benefits”. All that happens is employers’ products and services start becoming uncompetitively priced and profit margins get squeezed to the point of there being little reason to be in business.
Of course, increasing numbers of younger Americans are unemployable because the government schools are vomiting out hordes of virtually illiterate “graduates” with a profound sense of entitlement and no work ethic.
Those suppliers of services that are unwilling to pay the going rate for labor need to go out of business.