--- title: Five Best: Invest Corporate Tax Cuts in Apprenticeships description: Invest corporate tax cuts in apprenticeships, workers take better care of themselves when they have more paid sick time and more. canonical: https://time.com/5187646/the-best-use-of-corporate-tax-cuts-is-investing-in-apprenticeship-programs/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-06T17:00:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:01.830Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Invest Corporate Tax Cuts in Apprenticeships og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5187646/the-best-use-of-corporate-tax-cuts-is-investing-in-apprenticeship-programs/ 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: Invest Corporate Tax Cuts in Apprenticeships twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Best Use of Corporate Tax Cuts is Investing in Apprenticeship Programs by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 6, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 6, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The best use of corporate tax cuts is investing in apprenticeship programs.**](https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-best-use-of-corporate-tax-cuts-is-investing-in-apprenticeship-programs-2018-02-20#false) By Robert I. Lerman in _Marketwatch_ **2\.** [**When workers have more paid sick time, they take better care of themselves.**](http://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/paid-sick-days.php) By Gisele Galoustian at _Florida Atlantic University_ **3\.** [**The Oscars use a more fair voting system than most of America.**](https://theintercept.com/2018/03/04/oscars-2018-nominations-ranked-choice-voting/) By Zaid Jilani in the _Intercept_ **4\.** [**To accomplish some goals, you might need to start in the middle.**](https://www.fastcompany.com/40538272/why-you-should-start-some-goals-in-the-middle) By Stephanie Vozza in _Fast Company_ **5\.** [**It’s time to build monuments to women who made history.**](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-we-need-start-building-monuments-groundbreaking-women-180968306/) By Liza Mundy at _Smithsonian Magazine_  [_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/5187646/the-best-use-of-corporate-tax-cuts-is-investing-in-apprenticeship-programs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5187646/the-best-use-of-corporate-tax-cuts-is-investing-in-apprenticeship-programs/"},"headline":"The Best Use of Corporate Tax Cuts is Investing in Apprenticeship Programs","datePublished":"2018-03-06T17:00:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:01.830Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5187646/the-best-use-of-corporate-tax-cuts-is-investing-in-apprenticeship-programs/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Voting","productivity","tax cuts","Business"],"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/5187646/the-best-use-of-corporate-tax-cuts-is-investing-in-apprenticeship-programs/","name":"The Best Use of Corporate Tax Cuts is Investing in Apprenticeship Programs"}}]}] ```