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The coming Trump administration faces significant issues that the president-elect has campaigned on Ƶ controlling inflation, closing the border, rebuilding the U.S. military, and ending military conflict in Europe and the Middle East. However, there are other critical domestic policy challenges, including supporting world-class primary education, sustainable birth rates, and Social Security/Medicare solvency that need to be seriously addressed if Trump intends to ƵMake America Great Again.Ƶ

Primary Education Excellence. An indicator of human development is the Program for International Student Ƶsessment, which is coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Thomas A. Hemphill is David M. French Distinguished professor of strategy, innovation and public policy in the School of Management, University of Michigan-Flint. He wrote this column for .

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