--- --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 30 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 30, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 30, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Blue-collar jobs are coming back, and pay well. But women are missing out.**](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/women-lag-well-paid-blue-collar-jobs) By Mitchell Hartman in Marketplace **2\.** [**Ikea is known for affordable, flat-pack furniture. Now they’re selling the U.N. flat-pack refugee housing.**](https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/26/8287509/ikea-refugee-shelter-flatpack-photos-iraq-syria) By Amar Toor in the Verge **3\.** [**With an eye on the White House, politicians won’t admit it, but the ethanol mandate is terrible policy.**](http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-the-ethanol-mandate-is-terrible-policy/) By Josiah Neeley in the American Conservative **4\.** [**With billions in profits, tech giants must lead the charge against inequality in Silicon Valley.**](http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/23/opinions/sutter-apple-google-poverty/#) By John D. Sutter in CNN **5\.** [**Can better customer service make primary medical care affordable and sustainable?**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/upshot/small-company-has-plan-to-provide-primary-care-for-the-masses.html?abt=0002&abg=1) By Margot Sanger-Katz in the Upshot  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 30 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3763177/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-30/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3763177/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-30/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 30","datePublished":"2015-03-30T16:01:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:04:48.735Z","description":"Connecting women to blue-collar jobs, Ikea refugee housing, why the ethanol subsidy is terrible, Silicon Valley's 'moral shame' and more.","url":"https://time.com/3763177/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-30/","keywords":["Innovation","medicine","poverty","Inequality","Refugees","housing","United Nations","Ikea","UN","Silicon Valley","Corn"],"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/3763177/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-march-30/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 30"}}]}] ```