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Interactive graphics exploring the relationships, data, and systems behind Universal Basic Citizenship and the infrastructure of human flourishing.

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interactive October 16, 2026

How far does prosperity reach?

An explorer of how the world's gains since 1950 reached ordinary lives: how long people live, whether children do better than their parents, health and safety, despair and recovery, in the United States and around the world.

#economy#inequality#health#mobility#interactive#foundation
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interactive March 24, 2026

After 1979, pay fell behind what work produces

When the machine does your job, who gets the check? This chart shows how America has answered that since World War II.

#economy#inequality#labor#wages#interactive
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interactive March 24, 2026

More Than 20,000 Holes in the Ground

Every dot is about ten of Oklahoma's known abandoned oil and gas wells. Toggle the Phoenix conversion to see one way some of them could become infrastructure the community owns.

#phoenix-wells#energy#oklahoma#interactive#infrastructure
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interactive March 24, 2026

The Ripple Effect

Pick any Foundation component and watch the investment cascade through all 16. These aren't separate programs. They're one system.

#foundation#policy#interactive#systems#UBC
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interactive March 16, 2026

The Mirror

Five questions that map your priorities to the 16 Foundation components. Produces a personalized 'My Foundation' card showing what matters most to you.

#visualization#foundation#interactive#personal#policy
March 7, 2026

Trust in Government, 1958–2025

From 77% to 17% in six decades. The long collapse of Americans' trust in federal government, annotated.

#visualization#trust#governance#social-contract#democracy
March 7, 2026

Student Debt Clock

U.S. student loan debt, ticking up in real time: about $1.86 trillion, and over the past year it grew by about $1,760 every second.

#visualization#education#student-debt#inequality#clock
March 7, 2026

Energy Burden Calculator

Enter your income and state to find out what share of your household budget goes to keeping the lights on.

#visualization#energy#calculator#sustainable-energy#equity#oklahoma
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interactive March 6, 2026

Health Access in America

Two barriers to staying healthy, state by state: how many people have no health insurance, and how many people are both low-income and live far from a supermarket.

#foundation#healthcare#food#interactive#USDA
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interactive March 6, 2026

Housing Affordability by State

Select any state and see the gap between minimum wage and what it actually costs to afford a modest apartment. In no state can a full-time minimum wage worker afford a modest two-bedroom rental.

#foundation#housing#wages#interactive#NLIHC
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interactive March 6, 2026

Look Around the Room

Every figure represents one person in thirty. Tap the dimmed ones. They aren't failures. They're patterns shaped by the systems we chose.

#education#healthcare#housing#food#mental-health#interactive
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interactive March 6, 2026

Working for Rent

How many days of every month do you work just to pay rent: before food, before utilities, before your family? Adjust the sliders. Then see what the same job looks like in Germany.

#housing#labor#inequality#interactive#Oklahoma
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interactive February 24, 2026

The Five-Year Window: An AI Transition Timeline

A plain-language, visual guide to what's actually happened with AI, where we are now, and why the next few years matter more than any that came before.

#AI transition#futurism#foundation#interactive#policy
interactive February 24, 2026

Seven Generations

The Haudenosaunee held a principle: evaluate every major decision by its effects on the seventh generation. That's 175 years. We plan for about four years. This is what that looks like applied to the decisions being made right now.

#philosophy#indigenous-knowledge#long-term#Phoenix Wells#AI#visualization
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interactive February 23, 2026

The Numbers: Why Foundation

Interactive visualizations showing the human cost of current systems, and what the data says about better ones.

#foundation#inequality#healthcare#data#interactive
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interactive February 23, 2026

Foundation Circos: How Needs, Programs, and Impacts Connect

An interactive chord diagram mapping the relationships between human needs, Foundation programs, and their societal impacts.

#ubc#systems-thinking#policy#interactive#foundation

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