--- title: Making Bail Makes All the Difference for People in Poverty description: For people in poverty, making bail makes all the difference, can going digital fix education in the Arab world and more. canonical: https://time.com/4428309/making-bail-makes-all-the-difference-for-people-in-poverty/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-28T16:00:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:39.814Z article:section: Ideas og:title: For people in poverty, making bail makes all the difference. og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4428309/making-bail-makes-all-the-difference-for-people-in-poverty/ 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: For people in poverty, making bail makes all the difference. twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Making Bail Makes All the Difference for People in Poverty by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 28, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 28, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**For people in poverty, making bail makes all the difference.**](http://www.marketplace.org/2016/07/25/world/when-you-cant-make-bail) By Sabri Ben-Achour at Marketplace **2\.** [**Can going digital fix education in the Arab world?**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/arab-countries-online-learning-by-maysa-jalbout-2016-06) By Maysa Jalbout at Project Syndicate **3\.** [**Fewer than 1% of tech companies with black founders get VC funding. Here’s how to change that.**](http://www.fastcoexist.com/3062108/a-growing-group-of-black-angel-investors-is-making-up-for-the-funding-biases-in-venture-capi) By Sherrell Dorsey in Fast Co.Exist **4\.** [**This bank pays interest in a new currency: Mobile data.**](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-22/a-bank-account-that-pays-interest-in-a-new-currency-mobile-data) By Stefan Nicola at Bloomberg Technology **5\.** [**This is how people burn out, and how to avoid it.**](https://www.1843magazine.com/features/minds-turned-to-ash) By Josh Cohen in 1843  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4428309/making-bail-makes-all-the-difference-for-people-in-poverty/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4428309/making-bail-makes-all-the-difference-for-people-in-poverty/"},"headline":"Making Bail Makes All the Difference for People in Poverty","datePublished":"2016-07-28T16:00:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:39.814Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4428309/making-bail-makes-all-the-difference-for-people-in-poverty/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","Technology","poverty","Mobile"],"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/4428309/making-bail-makes-all-the-difference-for-people-in-poverty/","name":"Making Bail Makes All the Difference for People in Poverty"}}]}] ```