--- --- # The Power of a Bus Ticket Out of a Poor Village by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 12, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 12, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Want to help someone in a poor village? Give them a bus ticket out.**](https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/12/28/572911406/want-to-help-someone-in-a-poor-village-give-them-a-bus-ticket-out) By Nurith Aizenman at _NPR_ **2\.** [**Why are there so few black-owned grocery stores?**](https://civileats.com/2018/01/08/why-are-there-so-few-black-owned-grocery-stores/) By Tom Perkins in _Civil Eats_ **3\.** [**Senior citizens will lead the self-driving revolution.**](https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/10/16874410/voyage-self-driving-cars-villages-florida-retirement-communities) By Andrew J. Hawkins at the _Verge_ **4\.** [**Your college major predicts your midlife health.**](https://psmag.com/education/mammas-dont-let-your-babies-grow-up-to-be-psych-majors) By Tom Jacobs in _Pacific Standard_ **5\.** [**Hearing your favorite song in commercials might make you shop more.**](https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8054930/popular-songs-commercials-influence-shoping-consumers) By Colin Stutz in _Billboard_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ The Five Best: How a Bus Ticket Can Change a Life ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5100652/the-power-of-a-bus-ticket-out-of-a-poor-village/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5100652/the-power-of-a-bus-ticket-out-of-a-poor-village/"},"headline":"The Power of a Bus Ticket Out of a Poor Village","datePublished":"2018-01-12T17:00:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:13.405Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5100652/the-power-of-a-bus-ticket-out-of-a-poor-village/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","poor","commercials","grocery stores","senior citizens"],"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/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5100652/the-power-of-a-bus-ticket-out-of-a-poor-village/","name":"The Power of a Bus Ticket Out of a Poor Village"}}]}] ```