It is the policy of the US Government to screw the nation's workers - Globalist "Free" Trade, Fed Monetary Policy, IRS Tax Code, Global Climate Change nonsense, etc.
The Federal Reserve is the most blatant offender. Since Jimmy Carter's Stagflation, they have been obsessed with wage inflation - not executive compensation inflation, not cost of Government inflation, not cost of living inflation, not cost of education inflation, not cost of health care inflation - just wage inflation. In that time, the costs of Government, Education, Healthcare, and Executive Compensation have increased much faster than wages.
That's a contributing factor to Donald Trump's 2016 victory - American workers have been betrayed by their own Government.