I put health care way at the top of the list.
Though close second would be environmental stewardship -- making people aware that going green can be great for the economy!!

In no particular order:
Affordable housing
Transportation (in other words, making it possible for poor people to be able to get to grocery stores and -- even better -- jobs!)
Minimizing gov't subsidies for corporations, especially corporations whose labor or environmental practices harm communities more than they help them

As a homemaker, my hope is that these things would create more family-friendly communities. Living in an urban area, we live right up close to massive income variance. I am not in favor of the gov't redistributing wealth, but I am in favor of development that does not effectively imprison poor people in dangerous neighborhoods with no jobs and no grocery stores. Of course it is bad for poor people, but from a selfish perspective, blight spreads, drugs and crime spread, and as a middle class (rather than rich) family we don't have the money to keep moving and moving and moving to wealthier and wealthier neighborhoods to avoid it.

I am also in favor of public policies that don't effectively allow corporate interest to take over governance, either through buying influence with lobbying or through a twisted notion of what a free market really is. There is nothing wrong with big business when it stays in the private sector, but I don't want a behind-the-scenes corporate cabal creating policies that allow wasted resources, unsafe consumer products, and environmental devastation. That's not democracy!

OK, I'm straying from the question so I'll stop.

Shaun
www.redseahomeschool.wordpress.com