--- title: Five Best: Cities Need More Workers description: Cities need more workers, The next Russian attack will be far worse than bots and trolls and more. canonical: https://time.com/5208993/cities-need-more-workers/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-21T14:46:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:57:59.222Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Cities Need More Workers og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5208993/cities-need-more-workers/ 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: Cities Need More Workers 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 --- # Cities Need More Workers by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 21, 2018 2:46 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 21, 2018 2:46 PM UTC **1\.** [**Cities don’t need more jobs. They need more workers.**](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-20/tax-breaks-for-economic-development-are-a-losing-bet) By Conor Sen at _Bloomberg View_ **2\.** [**The next Russian attack will be far worse than bots and trolls.**](https://lawfareblog.com/next-russian-attack-will-be-far-worse-bots-and-trolls) By Alina Polyakova in _Lawfare_ **3\.** [**Living abroad can truly help you find a better sense of yourself.**](http://news.rice.edu/2018/03/20/study-living-abroad-leads-to-a-clearer-sense-of-self/) By Jeff Falk at _Rice University_ **4\.** [**These elegant and low-tech solutions could unlock cleaner, safer drinking water.**](https://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2018/march/lowtech-affordable-solutions-to-improve-water-quality.html) By Kelley Christensen at _Michigan Technical University_ **5\.** [**Jobs in African nations are at risk as the west rushes to automate work.**](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43459138) By the _BBC_  [_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/5208993/cities-need-more-workers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5208993/cities-need-more-workers/"},"headline":"Cities Need More Workers","datePublished":"2018-03-21T14:46:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:57:59.222Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5208993/cities-need-more-workers/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","russia","Africa","Innovation","Water","International","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/5208993/cities-need-more-workers/","name":"Cities Need More Workers"}}]}] ```