foreign aid

set aside part of the tax money that's supposed to be going to foreign assistance and using it for nothing but agriculture technology for third-world countries. it would be both inexpensive (as it's supposed to already have some money going to that use anyway) and an effective way to help the world. it isn't that america doesn't have needs; we definitely do, and we have to be careful with our country so that this doesn't happen to us, but at the same time, there are too many starving.

If the next president wants to work with others to combat widespread poverty across the world, he will have to reform a U.S. aid bureaucracy that is old and not fit to deal with today's challenges. On Day One, the next president should commit to modernizing foreign aid from top to bottom.