--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 26 description: Private sector investing to tackle poverty, paying our veterans, a 'teaching hospital' model for journalism, our innate musicality and more canonical: https://time.com/3682260/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-26/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-26T17:01:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:06:02.796Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Private sector investing to tackle poverty, paying our veterans, a 'teaching hospital' model for journalism, our innate musicality and more og:url: https://time.com/3682260/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-26/ 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: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Private sector investing to tackle poverty, paying our veterans, a 'teaching hospital' model for journalism, our innate musicality and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 26 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 26, 2015 5:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 26, 2015 5:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**We spent more than $170 billion on the wars they fought for us. Can we spend $5 billion to give veterans a guaranteed income?**](http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/1/veterans-guaranteedincomebenefits.html "undefined") By Gar Alperovitz in Al Jazeera America **2\.** [**A ‘teaching hospital’ model could work for journalism education by making students work collectively to produce professional results.**](http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/01/what-to-do-when-a-student-journalism-isnt-ready-to-produce-for-the-public-ask-lots-of-them-to/ "undefined") By Adam Ragusea at Neiman Lab **3\.** [**Humans are born with an intimate understanding of pitch, rhythm, and tone. We’re all musical geniuses.**](http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/how-all-humans-got-to-be-music-experts/ "undefined") By Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis in Aeon **4\.** [**WarkaWater Towers — which produce up to 25 gallons of water out of fog and dew every day — could change lives in drought-stricken countries.**](http://www.wired.com/2015/01/architecture-and-vision-warkawater/ "undefined") By Liz Stinson in Wired **5\.** [**Private sector investment savvy and funds can help us tackle poverty’s toughest challenges. It’s time for impact investing.**](http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/education/230425-time-to-re-imagine-the-market-and-economic-mobility "undefined") By Anne Mosle in The Hill  [_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/3682260/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-26/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3682260/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-26/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 26","datePublished":"2015-01-26T17:01:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:06:02.796Z","description":"Private sector investing to tackle poverty, paying our veterans, a 'teaching hospital' model for journalism, our innate musicality and more","url":"https://time.com/3682260/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-26/","keywords":["Innovation","Veterans","Music","poverty","war","Water","Drought","language","compensation","Journalism","Iraq War","architecture","Pension","ethiopia"],"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/3682260/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-january-26/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: January 26"}}]}] ```