CNN has a list of the 97 issues its viewers care most about.
What would be on your list?
I will evalute this list in the coming days.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/14/opinion/sutter-ctl-97-ideas
Here is the list
1. Constitutional rights
2. Bullying
3. Immigrant rights in the United States
4. Domestic-worker slavery
5. Discrimination against people with disabilities
6. Enviro-based solutions for poverty
7. Lacking investigative journalism
8. Mental health
9. Overpopulation
10. Kurdistan
11. Media coverage of mass shootings
12. Poverty and American Indians
13. Environmental justice
14. Africa's longest civil war
15. Genetically modified organisms (GMO)
16. Indefinite detention in jails
17. Child abuse in the United States
18. Drug-related incarcerations, particularly of minorities
19. Corporal punishment
20. Anti-climate change
21. Gay rights internationally (I second this as a very worthy subject; the crackdown on gays in Georgia and Russia, just to name two, is staggering, and being gay is still punishable by death in some nations.)
22. Better-skilled work force and trade-based education
23. Family planning
24. Slowing illegal immigration to the United States
25. International diplomacy and compromise
26. Zimbabwe's failing economy
27. Traffic congestion
28. Child prostitution
29. Patent trolls ("This American Life" did a helluva job explaining this concept. The show defined patent trolls as "companies that amass huge troves of patents and make money by threatening lawsuits." Critics say they stifle innovation.)
30. Polarized political discourse
31. Deforestation rates
32. Community gardens (pro)
33. "Death of journalism"
34. High-fructose corn syrup
35. U.S. budget issues
36. Lacking patriotism
37. Nodding Syndrome in Uganda (From NPR: "The strange and deadly illness known as nodding syndrome affects only children, and only in a small pocket of East Africa. It has affected more than 3,000 children since the late 1990s, when it first appeared in what was then southern Sudan. And for more than three years, the cause of nodding syndrome has eluded epidemiologists around the globe.")
38. Abortion
39. Niger Delta oil spills (The U.N. said in 2011 that cleanup could take 30 years.)
40. Family court issues
41. Arctic issues
42. "Transgenerational effects of endocrine disruptors, with DES (diethylstilbestrol) as prime example"
43. "Culture of the deaf"
44. "Going to send you to the South Pole to cuddle with emperor penguins" (from a Facebook friend who knows I would love that assignment)
45. Vets getting preference on jobs
46. Anti-Monsanto
47. Syria's war
48. IRS scandals
49. Sex trafficking (See CNN's "The Fighters.")
50. Unfairly high cost of student loans
51. Government spying in the United States
52. Benghazi, Libya
53. "Cancer Cluster in Clyde, Ohio!!"
54. Mining in Africa and its environmental cost
55. Price-fixing scandals globally
56. "The rise of conservative and hate ideology"
57. "I want to know more about Greece's economic crisis." (That's a phrase I never expected to hear from a reader. But check out this fascinating story from Vice on the drug of choice among Greece's homeless population.)
58. Kids in jail
59. Violence in U.S. cities
60. China's rise
61. "Child sexual abuse by the clergy in developing African countries"
62. U.S. nuclear waste storage
63. Conflicts of interest in government
64. Clean energy
65. Hospice and its "occult character"
66. Thorium/energy
67. Veterans services, generally
68. Child malnutrition, which reportedly is responsible for 45% of deaths of kids under five
69. HIV/AIDS. "The crisis isn't over, despite what many people think."
70. "Ever see a poor politician?"
71. "Government waste: Where does our tax money go anyway?"
72. Corporate greed (Check out this "Frontline" documentary that investigates why no top-level Wall Street bankers have gone to jail in connection with the U.S. financial crisis.)
73. Why can Congress vote their own wage increases?
74. PTSD among veterans
75. Teacher pay
76. Homeless and mentally ill children, particularly in developed countries
77. "APATHY"
78. Lacking mental health services in California
79. Lyme disease
80. Condom availability
81. Sex-offender prevention programs
82. Potable water access
82. Government corruption
83. Violence against Aboriginal women in Australia
84. Global warming
85. Alleged prostitution and illegal activity on Craigslist
86. Resource depletion
87. Health care availability
88. Tort reform
89. Laws on the right to self-defense
90. Racism in America
91. Prisoners are free labor in the U.S.
92. American Indians being removed from tribal rolls without cause
93. "The violent persecution of Christian and other minority communities in majority Muslim countries"
94. Jobs for adults with Asperger syndrome
95. Discrimination against men in divorce cases
96. Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)
97. Privatization of American schools
