Reforms beyond Healthcare

If I were POTUS, I would first do a top-down analysis of the budget.
I would track where every dollar was gained and spent.
Off the top of my head, I can think of the dubious ROI we have in Education and Criminal Justice.

What's the point of education? What's the point of criminal justice?

Personally, I believe that the end result of a High School education would be able to function as an independent adult. The two most important classes probably are health and home economics.

Today, everything is focused on STEM. STEM for the sake of STEM seems to be the thinking behind the focus.

I have nothing against science, technology, engineering and math, but if an emphasis were put on all the STEM elements relating to Health and Home Eco, people would understand why their diet matters or how to budget for college.

Probably the most important classes I had in college were critical thinking and probability. Both have taught me skills to be able to judge fake news properly.

Criminal Justice is just a money black hole. Criminals aren't reformed when they are given sentences that put them in contact with other criminals. Housing and feeding criminals only to release them worse off than when they entered is dumb.

Crime prevention starts with reducing the reasons crimes are committed.

Why do men rape women? Why do men rob strangers on the street?

Is rape about sex?

Is robbery about money?

I say men, but women and can rape and rob, too. Just getting to the root of why will reduce the prison problem.

Learning about healthy sexual relationships and gainful employment could be incorporated in my Health/Home Eco curriculum, but in a perfect world these lessons would be learned at home from one's parents. Parents aren't aware of so much in their children's lives, so what happens at school is separate from what happens at home.

Parents are busy, so it's easy to neglect the changes in their children. Forcing parents to be active in their schools could change this narrative. Parents have little knowledge of resources if they aren't aware they may need them.

Childcare and jobs programs could be created with the funds saved by fixing the holes in the criminal justice system.