I'd get into education, ideally with a plan to reform some of the things going on. Naturally there are tons of opinions on the matter and I'm not exactly up to date, but I can say with certainty that we need to adapt our curriculum to modern trends.
Kids are all using the internet by middle school and have tons of digital contact with friends. We need to extend basic safe interaction education to the virtual world as well. Every parent insists their kids not take candy from a stranger, yet they themselves accept offers from Nigerian princes.
Americans (and probably the rest of the world too) lack critical thinking skills (go read any forum board or news article comments section to verify this), and lack the ability to have a conversation with differences of opinion involved. We need people to understand that arguments can be bogus, facts can be incorrect or misleading or incomplete. They also need to learn that reasonable people can disagree and the goal is to understand where the other is coming from, and where common ground may exist.
Also math. I don't care if you think it's hard. It's way harder to have no clue how to budget your money.
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