America’s Plan is built to handle many issues over time, even if only a few have active hubs at the start.
This list shows the landscape of problems we expect people to arrive with—some already have active hubs, and others are unattended for now, waiting for affected parties and helpers to start them.
Active issues (with hubs)
- AI & Data Centers
How large‑scale data centers and AI infrastructure are reshaping local communities, grids, water, jobs, and democratic control over critical infrastructure. - Media Reform & Information Systems
How media concentration, disinformation, and platform incentives distort public debate, and what it would take to build independent, rights‑respecting information systems.
Other issues (hubs not yet active)
- Healthcare Access & Affordability
The cost, coverage gaps, and system failures that keep people from getting the care they need, from insurance rules to hospital closures. - Housing, Homelessness & Land Use
Housing costs, evictions, homelessness, zoning and land‑use rules that shape where people can live and on what terms.governing+1 - Wages, Work & Economic Inequality
Stagnant wages, precarious work, gig platforms, and rules that concentrate wealth and risk in ways most people can’t vote on directly. - Taxes, Budgets & Public Investment
How tax policy, deficits, and budget choices shift burdens between people, corporations, and future generations, and what fair funding would look like. - Elections, Voting Rights & Democracy Safeguards
Voting access, gerrymandering, election administration, and the rules that decide who actually has power in a formal democracy. - Political Extremism & Polarization
Organized efforts to harden divides, undermine trust, and normalize antidemocratic behavior, and how communities can push back. - Government & Corporate Corruption
How money, lobbying, and conflicts of interest bend institutions away from the public, and tools for transparency and accountability. - Climate, Energy & Environmental Justice
Climate impacts, pollution, energy systems, and how burdens and benefits are distributed across communities. - Education & Knowledge Access
Schools, higher education, curriculum fights, and the broader information ecosystem that shapes what people can learn and who gets left out. - Immigration, Borders & Belonging
Laws, enforcement, and narratives that define who is allowed to move, work, and belong—and how that impacts families and communities. - Policing, Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Policing practices, incarceration, courts, and alternatives that center safety, dignity, and equal treatment under the law. - Civil Liberties, Surveillance & Privacy
How laws, tech platforms, and security practices shape speech, assembly, privacy, and the right to live without constant monitoring. - Reproductive Rights & Bodily Autonomy
Laws and policies governing abortion, contraception, gender‑affirming care, and wider questions of control over one’s own body. - Race, Rights & Equal Citizenship
The structures and policies that produce racial inequity in housing, education, policing, health, and political power. - Social Safety Net & Social Security
Programs like Social Security, disability, unemployment, food assistance, and how they succeed or fail at providing real security. - Opioids, Addiction & Public Health
Drug policy, treatment access, and the systems around addiction, harm reduction, and community recovery. - Food Systems, Agriculture & Nutrition
How food is grown, processed, marketed, and subsidized, and what that means for health, farm communities, workers, and the environment.governing+1 - Technology Platforms, Speech & Data Rights
How big tech platforms, algorithms, and data practices affect speech, autonomy, discrimination, and democratic deliberation. - War, Foreign Policy & Global Solidarity
Military interventions, arms, alliances, and the way foreign policy decisions shape life for people both abroad and at home. - Disaster Response & Community Resilience
How governments and communities prepare for and respond to disasters—from storms to pandemics—and who is protected first. - Transportation, Infrastructure & Public Space
Roads, transit, broadband, and public spaces, and how infrastructure decisions shape daily life, climate, and opportunity. - Religion, Secular Government & Equal Treatment
Conflicts over church‑state separation, religious encroachment into public policy, and protecting equal citizenship for people of all faiths and none.
For the site, you can mark AI & Data Centers and Media Reform as “Active hub” and all others as “Help start a hub,” each linking either to its hub page or to /issues/start-a-hub/.
This article was researched and drafted with AI assistance and edited, directed, and verified by the author.