Trade Act Programs | United States Department of Labor
The could be a wage rate readjustment act also -- there might be a payroll tax 50/50 worker/employer to fund it.
There should be vocational retraining opportunity however limited its success has been. Tax supported vocational training schools and 2 year college schooling towards getting AA degrees in needed skills would go a long way toward eliminating a lot of need to work temporarily at minimum or low wages to help pay for continuing or advanced schooling.
There only might be a need of 1/3 of today's current minimum or low wage job positions in the near future.
Do we behave like a Luddite and destroy the machines or regress progress with Luddite politics -- the idiots shall inherit the earth?