Candidates are asked what has happened to wages, employment, and taxes in the place they seek to represent, and are held to the answer. Alt-30 prepares current economic profiles for legislative and congressional districts nationwide, and reviews the claims a campaign intends to make before they are published.
The economic argument that persuades a district is rarely the one that persuades a state. It concerns a particular levy, a particular employer, a particular year in which something changed — and it is checkable.
Campaigns are seldom staffed to assemble that record, and never on the timeline a debate imposes.
Alt-30 maintains that record continuously across all fifty states, which is what allows us to answer within a cycle rather than a quarter.
From recruitment through the general election the questions change; the underlying record should not. Clients draw on the same econometric models at each stage, which is what keeps a candidate's numbers consistent from the primary to the floor.
Alt-30 serves campaigns, PACs, and caucuses across the political spectrum, sometimes in the same cycle and occasionally in the same chamber. Our models return the same answer regardless of who commissions them, which is the only reason the answer is worth carrying into a debate.
We will prepare an economic profile for that district without fee, so the campaign can judge the work before committing to it.