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I wouldn't recommend poliSci or economics, you will go broke if you're not following the status quo line and its an useless career from a production viewpoint.
If i were to start all over again, id go for civil engineering or architecture. If there is one safe area its that one, construction never goes out of business, you can transfer that knowledge anywhere in the world and its a productive set of skills.
You should probably aim for labor law then.
Pursue a political science or economics degree and then become a lawyer. You can have any bachelors and make it to law school, and you would be able to effectively help the organizations you listed.
The few econ students I knew at my uni wanted to work for one of the big accounting firms like Deloitte and whatnot. One of them was able to do that, another went to study law in US. Not sure about the rest.
Engineering, and if you can't, then a trade in construction or metal/wood work (you can probably get an engineering degree later).
If you can explain why it would help clear the fog a little bit for the OP
Good point. Edited.