Tom Church is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He studies domestic spending, entitlement reform, income inequality, and poverty in America. His primary interest is developing supplemental statistics to shortcomings in measurements of income, inequality, poverty, and health insurance. He has conducted research on the California state budget, identifying long-term structural deficits and their remedies. He has also written on mobile broadband development in America in Mobile Services Industries, Technologies, and Applications in the Global Economy.

He received his master’s degree in public policy from Pepperdine University with honors, specializing in economics and international relations. He has a BA in mathematics and political science from the University of Michigan.