--- title: One Way to Reduce Crime: Raise Wages description: Here's a way to reduce crime, how hip-hop can bring Shakespeare to life and more. canonical: https://time.com/4477594/one-way-to-reduce-crime-raise-wages/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-02T16:00:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:32.634Z article:section: Ideas og:title: One Way to Reduce Crime: Raise Wages og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4477594/one-way-to-reduce-crime-raise-wages/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: One Way to Reduce Crime: Raise Wages twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # One Way to Reduce Crime: Raise Wages by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 2, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Sep 2, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Want to reduce crime? Raise wages.**](https://morningconsult.com/opinions/want-reduce-crime-raise-wages/) By Rachel West and Rebecca Vallas at Morning Consult **2\.** [**How hip-hop can bring Shakespeare to life.**](https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/09/01/how-hip-hop-can-bring-shakespeare-to-life/) By Holly Korbey at KQED’s MindShift **3\.** [**‘Vanity sizing’ has ruined shopping. Here are some ways to fix it.**](http://time.com/how-to-fix-vanity-sizing/) By Eliana Dockterman in Time **4\.** [**Need a great source for housing data? Try Craigslist.**](http://www.citylab.com/housing/2016/08/for-quick-housing-data-hit-craigslist/497972/) By Tanvi Misra in CityLab **5\.** [**Do we need new language for an increasingly multiracial America?**](http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/08/25/455470334/all-mixed-up-what-do-we-call-people-of-multiple-backgrounds) By Leah Donnella at NPR’s Code Switch  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ One Way to Reduce Crime: Raise Wages ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4477594/one-way-to-reduce-crime-raise-wages/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4477594/one-way-to-reduce-crime-raise-wages/"},"headline":"One Way to Reduce Crime: Raise Wages","datePublished":"2016-09-02T16:00:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:32.634Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4477594/one-way-to-reduce-crime-raise-wages/","keywords":["Innovation","Crime","Shopping","housing","language","Shakespeare"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4477594/one-way-to-reduce-crime-raise-wages/","name":"One Way to Reduce Crime: Raise Wages"}}]}] ```