Meanwhile, AI and mechanization, and offshoring labor reduce any job opportunities for the blue collar/entry level white collar occupations and more and more people will find themselves unable to find any employment other than, maybe, flipping burgers - which will be automated too, soon enough.
We need somebody in the presidency who will understand this problem and address it - let's say, Donald Trump - if we don't work on this, our children and their children will living under those overpasses.
I was watching a technical review video of a E-car (must have been 3 years ago). E-cars are figured to have only about half the number of parts...as a gas/diesel car.
So what impressed me was you could pull into a station...hook up the cabling and determine the failing component in a minute. They had determined that a 18-year old kid with minimal training could then watch the repair video....remove the failing part, and install the new part.
In their mind...50 years in the future, with mostly only e-cars, mechanics would not exist.
Many of the problems you mentioned could be solved if they reintroduced trades programs into the high schools. The country will always need skilled carpenters, plumbers, etc.
But no. The big shots at the top have decided that those kids belong in Algebra 2 and Advanced Poetry classes instead.
(And I say that as someone who taught Algebra 2.)