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# Equality Matters More than Income for Kids

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## The Aspen Institute


Mar 1, 2018 5:00 PM UTC

**1\.** [**For children, equality matters more than income.**](https://daily.jstor.org/why-equality-matters-more-than-income/)

By Livia Gershon in _JSTOR Daily_

**2\.** [**We need the singular ‘they’ – and it won’t seem wrong for long.**](https://aeon.co/ideas/we-need-the-singular-they-and-it-wont-seem-wrong-for-long)

By Stephanie Golden at _Aeon_

**3\.** [**Personalized medicine will work great for white men. What about the rest of us?**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610367/the-high-tech-medicine-of-the-future-may-be-biased-in-favor-of-well-off-white-men/)

By Emily Mullin in _MIT Technology Review_

**4\.** [**Why did Americans stop buying life insurance?**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-27/the-decline-of-life-insurance-is-a-mystery)

By Peter R. Orszag in _Bloomberg View_

**5\.** [**Schools have found a new strategy for boosting brain health in kids: Exercise.**](http://hechingerreport.org/growing-number-states-hoping-improve-kids-brains-exercise/)

By Lillian Mongeau at _Hechinger Report_

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