Ask the Department of Education to work with State and local governments to incorporate the teaching of basic business and entrepreneurial skills for all high school students.
This could be a one term course with topics on basic marketing, customer service, how to write a business plan, basic bookkeeping, and basic leadership skills.
We need to teach future generations of Americans that they be their own employer and imbue them with the skills to survive as such.
These are useful survival skills whatever the students vocation, whether it is a scientist, an engineer, an artist, a musician, a physician, a nurse, a mechanic, a cashier, or even a secretary,