INCREASED Change in importance More Less URGENCY TO Net change since last year, in the U.S. Important Important ADDRESS Improving our 60 9 healthcare system +51 FOUNDATIONAL PROBLEMS Finding ways to combat 57 11 fake news +46 Change in importance since last year Protecting people’s individual freedoms +45 56 11 (more important minus less important) Improving our education system +43 54 11 Addressing in this country 53 12 poverty +41 Closing the 51 13 economic and social divide +38 Addressing 51 17 climate change +34 Addressing 49 16 discrimination and racism +33 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer.IMP_POL_PRIORITIES. For each of the following issues and challenges, please indicate whether our country addressing it has become more important to you, less important to you, or has stayed the same in importance, since last year. 5-point scale; top 2 box; more important; bottom 2 box, less important. General population, U.S. Net change is the difference between more and less important. 19