Add these to your personal curriculum on basic income
A non-exhaustive list of website recommendations and interactive resources about basic income
For the uninitiated, a personal curriculum is a self-directed learning journey that is structured and, most importantly, enjoyable. You choose an interest and essentially become your own professor, all in the effort to celebrate intellectual curiosity outside of formal education.
One of the Bootstraps team’s biggest goals is to encourage an open discussion around the potential and real-world impact of basic income on everyday people. The first step is to make sure everyone is caught up on what basic income is and make learning about it less complicated and more accessible.
With the recent trend of personal curriculums1, we wanted to continue our series of recommendations with interactive online tools that can help deepen your knowledge on basic income.
UBI Calculator
Created by one of our filmmakers, Conrad Shaw, the UBI calculator is a tool for American individuals and families to calculate the effects of universal basic income (UBI) on their household finances and on the American economy. It compiles various basic income plans to make it easier for you to compare and to explore the following questions:
How does it affect you?
Who else gains income?
How does this impact U.S. citizens?
How is this plan paid for?
How does this plan impact the deficit?
Basic Income Research Visualization
Created by the Stanford Basic Income Lab, this visualization tool compiles basic income research presented as comprehensive summaries of articles, research papers, books, etc. The user-friendly platform allows you to explore the diversity of approaches to basic income trials and to understand how basic income intersects with various themes like automation, health, gender, democracy, economic effects, race, and work.
The Guaranteed Income Pilots Dashboard
The Dashboard, created in a partnership of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research, Stanford Basic Income Lab, and Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, is another visualization tool that compiles data from 30+ pilots in the U.S.
The best part of the website (in our opinion) are the testimonies from participants under the “Stories” page.
Experiments Map (Global)
Another tool by the Stanford Basic Income Lab, this resource is for all the people who love maps. You can click on each point to learn more about past and present basic income trials around the world.
Map of Basic Income Pilots (U.S.)
Another resource for the map fans. BasicIncomePilots.com to search through active and concluded pilots in the United States. You can even add them to an easy-to-understand comparison chart.
UBIdata (Global)
An all-in-one platform for the map and chart fans. UBIdata is “a growing online knowledge repository focused on systematically collecting, processing, and disseminating key information about basic income pilots, proposals and policy debates around the world.”
What other websites should we add to this list? Let us know below.
This needs a rebrand. "Guaranteed Income" instead of "basic" sounds much more appealling. Basic sounds well, basic.