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  • Estimate the budgetary effects of policy proposals

  • Advance open source and reproducible economic modeling

  • Develop technologies to give government back to the American people

Government in the United States, both at the federal and state level, has become larger and ever more complex. The mission of the Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis (OFRA) is to make government policy easier to understand, reform, and reorient for the good of the American people.

Our open source technology tools help policy professionals simplify and streamline legislative design and rulemaking. Our quantitative analyses highlight major budgetary risks and opportunities. Our voter education products enable the average American, including those not steeped in public policy, to understand its impact on their lives. And all of our work is built to be accessible, transparent, and reproducible.

Team

Matthew Jensen

Executive Director, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Weifeng Zhong

Director of Operations and Strategy, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Zach Risher

Senior Technology Advisor, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

James Broughel

Senior Research Advisor, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Dustin Chambers, Ph.D.

Visiting Fellow, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Max Kossek

Researcher, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

David Peterson

Research Engineer, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Jeff McCrea

Engineer, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Ryan Montgomery

Program Assistant, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Jackson Mejia

Fellow, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

Jackson Vermillion

Program Assistant, Office for Fiscal and Regulatory Analysis

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Fact Sheet | August 21, 2026

OHIO’S 1ST DISTRICT: THE COMEBACK AT A GLANCE

The district: the city of Cincinnati, dozens of other Hamilton County communities, and all of Warren County — on current boundaries; a new map adopted October 31, 2025 takes effect with the 2026 elections, so figures on today's boundaries will shift. Median household income was $82,099 in 2024, about 14% above Ohio's $72,212; the median owner-occupied home was worth $336,300, below the $360,600 national median.
Fact Sheet | August 10, 2026

Iowa: The Great American Comeback

On January 1, 2025, Iowa’s income tax became a single flat 3.8% rate—down from graduated rates topping out at 5.7% in 2024 (Iowa Capital Dispatch, 2025a), reform that lifted Iowa to #17 overall and #11 on the individual income tax component of the Tax Foundation’s 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index (Tax Foundation, 2026a). Now the Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC), enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025, stack federal relief on top of that state advantage—in a state where unemployment runs a full point below the Nation’s.
Fact Sheet | August 10, 2026

South Dakota: The Great American Comeback

South Dakota shows what pro-growth policy delivers: no state income tax, the Nation’s lowest unemployment rate, an economy that just topped $80 billion for the first time—and now the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation under the Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC), enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025.
Fact Sheet | August 10, 2026

Alaska: The Great American Comeback

The Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC), enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025, deliver what supporters call the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation, just as the state’s unemployment rate breaks out of a years-long rut.
Fact Sheet | August 5, 2026

New Mexico: The Great American Comeback

New Mexico’s economy has never been bigger—and Washington just delivered the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation, the Working Families Tax Cuts (WFTC), enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025. Because New Mexico’s incomes and tax bills run below the national average, the new relief stretches further here than in most states.

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