[Respond] Consider possible topics: Improving living or working conditions.

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If you are interested in the problem Kornbluh describes, you might suggest other ways of helping parents juggle their work and family responsibilities. For example, consider writing a proposal for increasing opportunities for one or more parents to work at home via telecommuting. Alternatively, you might consider a proposal to improve the living or working conditions of a group of people. Focus on a problem a particular category of people face. For example, think of ways to help elderly and infirm people in your community who need transportation, or elementary-school kids who have no after-school programs. Alternatively, devise solutions to problems that affect college students—for example, the creation of job-training or referral programs to help college students find work on or near campus, or recycling and “green” energy solutions that will help students living in dorms limit their impact on the environment.