Air Pollution Creates a Toxic Learning Environment — Five Best Ideas of the Day: March 8, 2018

1. For poor and minority children, air pollution creates a toxic learning environment.
   by Adam Wernick at Living on Earth
2. Approaching mobility differently — and rethinking every trip we take in a car — could change the face of American cities.
   by Marija Gavrilov in NewCo
3. America’s middle class is finally becoming race-plural — like the rest of the country.
   by Richard V. Reeves and Camille Busette at The Brookings Institution
4. Turn prisons into colleges.
   by Elizabeth Hinton in The New York Times
5. Work-life balance is a different kind of problem for women of color.
   by Kimberly Seals Allers at Slate

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