--- description: Fixing how we measure poverty, student athlete mental health, how gangs might make prison safer, why Luddites are still wrong, and more. title: The 5 Best Ideas of the Day 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: March 4 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 4, 2015 5:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 4, 2015 5:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**We’re measuring family poverty wrong. We should measure access to opportunity to find out what’s really working.**](http://www.aecf.org/resources/measuring-access-to-opportunity-in-the-united-states/ "undefined") By the Annie E. Casey Foundation **2\.** [**Anxiety, depression and more: “Four to five times more” high school athletes struggle with mental health issues than concussions.**](http://usatodayhss.com/2015/nata-tim-neal-mental-health-issues-in-student-athletes "undefined") By Gary Mihoces in USA Today **3\.** [**They provide social order and an economic structure. What if prison gangs actually make life better behind bars?**](http://wilsonquarterly.com/stories/behavioral-economists-case-for-prison-gangs/ "undefined") By Shannon Mizzi in Wilson Quarterly **4\.** [**Scientists have released the genetic sequence of the 2014 Ebola virus to crowdsource solutions to future outbreaks.**](http://fathom.info/mirador/ebola/datarelease "undefined") By Fathom Information Design **5\.** [**If new technology really cut jobs, we’d all be out of work by now.**](http://aspen.us/journal/editions/marchapril-2015/new-luddite-fears-are-misplaced-if-new-technology-really-cut-jobs "undefined") By Walter Isaacson in the Aspen Journal of Ideas  [_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/3731627/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3731627/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-4/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 4","datePublished":"2015-03-04T17:01:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:15.015Z","description":"Fixing how we measure poverty, student athlete mental health, how gangs might make prison safer, why Luddites are still wrong, and more.","url":"https://time.com/3731627/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-4/","keywords":["Innovation","Psychology","Children","Depression","Mental Health","Jobs","Economy","Athletes","DNA","Genetics","Technology","Anxiety","poverty","Crowdsourcing","Students","Prison","Virus","families","ebola","gangs"],"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/3731627/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-4/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 4"}}]}] ```