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NHCPPS seeks summer intern
Doug Hall Memorial Internship, Summer 2012  The New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, located in downtown Concord, NH, is currently seeking applications for the Doug Hall Memorial Internship for Summer 2012.  The intern ...Read More


Financing New Hampshire’s Cities and Towns: Update 2012
New Hampshire is moving into Town Meeting season, when local budgets will be debated and decided upon by citizens. The NH Center for Public Policy Studies provides an updated analysis of the financing ...Read More


Crime in New Hampshire, 2011
New Hampshire has not published a comprehensive annual crime statistics report since the one released by the New Hampshire Department of Safety in 1993. The Center is publishing this report to assist policymakers ...Read More


Policy Note: An Update on Expanded Gambling
This paper is an update to the Center’s May 2010 report, “Analyzing the Impact of Expanded Gambling on New Hampshire.” Our goal here is to provide insight into the potential implications for New ...Read More


New Hampshire Economic Outlook November 2011
During the Great Recession, New Hampshire fared better than many other states and the country as a whole, but we are still skating on thin ice. The forecast still calls for New Hampshire ...Read More


NH's Silver Tsunami: Aging and the Health care system
  Aging in New Hampshire Presentation - with audio   New Hampshire’s aging population will play a major role in shaping health care spending in coming decades. By the year 2020, the state’s shift towards an ...Read More


Gambling in NH: Sept. 2011 Update
Presentation by Center Director Steve Norton to House subcommittee on HB593, Sept. 27, 2011. ...Read More


What is New Hampshire? 2011 Edition and Maps
Welcome to the 2011 edition of "What is New Hampshire?", the Center's annual compilation of graphs and data on the people, strengths and challenges of the state. Click the above link to find ...Read More


New Hampshire's Pension Reform: Tallying the bottom line
In adopting a menu of reforms to New Hampshire’s Retirement System (NHRS) last month, lawmakers had one essential goal: reduce the state’s pension costs without increasing costs for local communities. Compared to the status ...Read More


The New State Budget: Looking back, looking forward
As with every budget conversation, the debate over the 2012-13 budget highlighted innumerable details of how New Hampshire raises and spends money. But to get a firm grasp of this budget, it may ...Read More


Counting on the Future: New Hampshire's State Revenue Estimates
Not surprisingly, when economic situations are in flux, the methods the state uses to estimate revenues are less accurate. The Center presents a further examination of New Hampshire state revenues, from several angles. ...Read More


Census 2010: Mapping New Hampshire
New figures released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau add context to our understanding of the demographic forces shaping New Hampshire. The following maps, prepared by Center staff, illustrate a handful of those ...Read More


Census 2010: NH's shifting landscape (Slideshow)
Data released earlier this week by the U.S. Census Bureau paints an interesting portrait of the population changes that shaped New Hampshire over the past decade. The following maps, prepared by Center staff, illustrate ...Read More


Smart Manufacturing and High Technology
Smart Manufacturing and High Technology New Hampshire’s Leading Economic Sector The Smart Manufacturing/High Technology (SMHT) sector, which includes all of New Hampshire’s approximately 2,100 manufacturing companies as well as more than 1,600 high technology companies, ...Read More


The Disparate Impacts of Local Aid Cuts, March 2011
Our first in a planned series of papers through the 2012-2013 budget-writing cycle in which the Center will analyze the potential impact of “downshifting” in various forms. ...Read More


Health System Cost-Shifting in New Hampshire
The Center examines the health industry practice known as "cost-shifting"–charging certain patient populations more than the actual cost of their care so as to cover the cost of providing treatment to uninsured patients ...Read More


Under Construction: Improving New Hampshire's School Building Aid Program
Building a new school is a hefty financial undertaking, especially for small districts that lack large tax bases. For more than half a century, New Hampshire has helped local school districts pay for ...Read More


 

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