Education is the answer for the USA, and 2 years of free college is a great start. Then the people who rise to the top need to be given free scholarships so that they can go on to be doctors, etc.
Our neighborhoods need to have more colleges, and fewer prisons. We need more professors and fewer prison guards.
We need to think like the Greeks, and we need to be thinkers, and star gazers, and we need theatre, etc.
And we need to have Wellness Centers, with crisis intervention specialists.
Salute,
Tony V.