Alt-30 is an economic consulting firm. We produce the impact studies, fiscal analyses, revenue forecasts, and expert testimony that decision-makers rely on when a policy, a project, or a budget is on the table.
Any consultant can produce a favorable figure. The question that decides whether it is worth anything is what happens when a skeptical committee member, an opposing economist, or a reporter asks how it was derived.
We build every analysis to answer that question.
Assumptions are stated in the report. Multipliers are disclosed. Every input traces to a primary filing, and the model is available for inspection by anyone who cares to check it.
Our clients want different things from government. What none of them can do without is a credible answer to how much a decision moves, in which direction, and for whom. Each practice is described in full on its own page.
Engagements run from a single impact study to a standing advisory relationship. All of them draw on the same longitudinal records of appropriations, tax filings, and employment — fifty states, more than five hundred municipalities, back to fiscal year 1967 — because measuring a change requires knowing what preceded it.
An economic consulting firm is worth retaining only if its findings would embarrass it to reverse. We hold no lobbying registrations, make no political contributions as a firm, and advocate for no legislation, candidate, or ballot measure. Clients across the political spectrum engage us, frequently on opposite sides of the same bill, and the method does not change to suit them. That is also why a firm can bring us into a client meeting without creating a conflict.
Hold Alt and type 30. A keyboard returns ▲ — the oldest notation in economics for a quantity that has moved.
That is the whole of the work. A tax cut moves a general fund. A plant closure moves a county payroll. A development moves a city revenue base for thirty years. Every question a client brings us is finally a question about how much moved, in which direction, and for whom.
Alt-30 is an economic consulting firm built to answer those questions with numbers that hold up. We maintain longitudinal records of appropriations, tax filings, and employment across fifty states and more than five hundred municipalities, back to fiscal year 1967, because measuring a change requires knowing what preceded it. The firm began in Arizona and keeps unusual depth there; the method is identical in every state we cover.
A PhD economist leads each engagement. We do not lobby, we do not poll, and we do not advise on message. We produce the number, and we defend it in the room.
PoliMetrics is where we publish work no client commissioned. It covers state fiscal policy, shared-revenue formulas, labor economics, and how policy travels between jurisdictions. Publishing openly is part of the method: an assumption that cannot survive a public audience should not be sold privately either.
Read PoliMetricsThe portals below draw on the same econometric models that underpin our engagements and are open to the public. Retained clients receive dedicated, access-controlled instances configured to the states, districts, and agencies their work depends on.
Describe the decision in front of you and we will tell you plainly whether it is a question economics can answer, what the analysis would involve, and what it would cost. If the answer is that you do not need us, we will say so.
morgan.harman@alt-30.comThank you. We will review your note and respond within one business day, ordinarily with a jurisdiction brief already prepared.