--- title: Low-Income Students Will Soon Get Financial Aid for Coding description: Low-income students will soon get financial aid for code bootcamps, can bad design be deadly and more. canonical: https://time.com/4462704/low-income-students-will-soon-get-financial-aid-for-coding/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-23T16:00:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:34.980Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Low-income students will soon get financial aid for coding og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4462704/low-income-students-will-soon-get-financial-aid-for-coding/ 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: Low-income students will soon get financial aid for coding twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Low-Income Students Will Soon Get Financial Aid for Coding by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 23, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 23, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Low-income students will soon get financial aid — for code bootcamps.**](https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/18/low-income-students-will-soon-be-able-to-get-federal-aid-to-attend-coding-bootcamps/) By Megan Rose Dickey in TechCrunch **2\.** [**Can bad design be deadly?**](https://www.propublica.org/article/looks-can-kill-the-deadly-results-of-flawed-design) By Lena Groeger at ProPublica **3\.** [**Scientists might have found a way to stop throwing away tires.**](https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2016/august/reducing-tire-waste-by-using-completely-degradable-synthetic-rubber.html) By the American Chemical Society **4\.** [**A small investment in stronger communities can create big change. Here’s how.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/opinion/how-community-networks-stem-childhood-traumas.html) By David Bornstein in the New York Times **5\.** [**The “technology industry” is a myth.**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/technology-industry-anil-dash) By Anil Dash in LinkedIn  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Low-Income Students Will Soon Get Financial Aid for Coding ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4462704/low-income-students-will-soon-get-financial-aid-for-coding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4462704/low-income-students-will-soon-get-financial-aid-for-coding/"},"headline":"Low-Income Students Will Soon Get Financial Aid for Coding","datePublished":"2016-08-23T16:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:34.980Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4462704/low-income-students-will-soon-get-financial-aid-for-coding/","keywords":["Innovation","Technology","Community","Design","Coding"],"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/4462704/low-income-students-will-soon-get-financial-aid-for-coding/","name":"Low-Income Students Will Soon Get Financial Aid for Coding"}}]}] ```