--- description: Low wages in manufacturing, integrating gender in Marine recruit training, reviewing police shootings, Tunisia after the revolution & more. title: These Are Today's Best Ideas. image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: December 1 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 1, 2014 5:02 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 1, 2014 5:02 PM CUT **1\.** [**Though manufacturing jobs — particularly in the auto industry — are making a comeback, the wages are low and not even keeping up with inflation.**](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/manufacturing-low-pay-declining-wages-jobs-built-middle-class.pdf?nocdn=1 "undefined") By Catherine Ruckelshaus and Sarah Leberstein at the National Employment Law Project **2\.** [**Simple, human-centered adaptive technology can change lives for people with disabilities.**](http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/spoonful-helping-cerebral-palsy-patients-eat-with-dignity-and-ease/articleshow/45314396.cms "undefined") By Krithika Krishnamurthy in Economic Times **3\.** [**As the military finally integrates men and women, gender-segregated recruit training in the Marines must end.**](https://www.mca-marines.org/gazette/2014/12/gender-integrated-marine-corps "undefined") By Lieutenant Colonel Kevin G. Collins in Marine Corps Gazette **4\.** [**A neutral review board — not the police department itself — should review officer-involved shootings.**](http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/08/what-i-did-after-police-killed-my-son-110038%5Ffull.html#.VHxwZaTF9o8 "undefined") By Michael Bell in Politico **5\.** [**After two peaceful elections, Tunisia demonstrates that fixing politics is easier than remaking a nation, and the problems that sparked the Arab Spring persist.**](http://qz.com/288827/tunisia-just-had-two-clean-elections-but-it-could-be-headed-for-another-arab-spring/ "undefined") By Sam Kimball and Nicholas Linn in Quartz  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3611578/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-december-1/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3611578/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-december-1/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: December 1","datePublished":"2014-12-01T17:02:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:06:52.322Z","description":"Low wages in manufacturing, integrating gender in Marine recruit training, reviewing police shootings, Tunisia after the revolution & more.","url":"https://time.com/3611578/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-december-1/","keywords":["Innovation","Tunisia","Jobs","gender","police","elections","Discrimination","Arab Spring","Marines","Wages","Manufacturing","Ferguson topic","Michael Brown","darren wilson"],"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/3611578/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-december-1/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: December 1"}}]}] ```