Employment

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New Hampshire’s Well Educated, Underpaid Child Care Workforce
In this primer, authors Rebecca Glauber and Jess Carson discuss New Hampshire’s child care workforce.
Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire Child Care, Children, Education, Employment, Family, Income, New Hampshire, Wages
New Hampshire Employees Working in Small Firms Lack Access to Paid Family and Medical Leave
In this brief, author Kristin Smith reports that In December 2022, just prior to the launch of the NH Paid Family and Medical Leave Program, 40 percent of NH workers did not have access to paid medical, parental, or family leave. In its first year, the program has…
New Hampshire Employment, Health Insurance, New Hampshire
“Hyperlocal” Career Pathway Programs in New Hampshire
In this report, author Jayson Seaman reports that cross-sector partnerships are playing a critical role in helping New Hampshire youth transition into postsecondary education and work. The partnerships work best when they involve collaboration and flexibility and…
New Hampshire Education, Employment, New Hampshire, Young Adults
Retaining Residents Is Important to New Hampshire’s Future
In this brief, authors Kristine Bundschuh and Kenneth Johnson discuss the results of NH Granite State Polls conducted from 2010–2012 and 2018–2019 that asked a representative sample of over 3,300 established residents to share, in their own words, their top three…
Demography, New Hampshire Demography, Economy, Employment, Family, Migration, New Hampshire
Childcare Remains Out of Reach for Millions in 2021, Leading to Disproportionate Job Losses for Black, Hispanic, and Low-Income Families
Using data from the late summer through the fall of 2021, this brief documents recent racial and income disparities in reports of inadequate access to childcare and identifies the employment-related consequences of these shortages.
Center for Social Policy in Practice African Americans, Child Care, Children, COVID-19, Employment, Family, Hispanics, Low Income, Race, Unemployment
COVID-19 Economic Crisis: By State
This report provides an update on state by state the pandemic employment situation through September 2021. Every state is on the economic mend from 2020’s pandemic-induced collapse in employment, but the recovery has been uneven with some states returning to pre-…
COVID-19 COVID-19, Economy, Employment, Unemployment
Inequities in Job Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This policy brief provides an update on the employment trends that took place between February 2020 and June 2021.
COVID-19 African Americans, COVID-19, Education, Employment, Hispanics, Inequality, Race, Unemployment
Home Isn’t Where the Office Is
In this perspectives brief, authors John Jones and Jordan Hensley report the results of a survey that asked participants their perspectives on working from home and the impact that the death of the office could have on Black professionals’ opportunities.
COVID-19 African Americans, COVID-19, Employment, Race
Archived: COVID-19 Economic Crisis by State – Through July 2021
Archived report through July 2021: With the strongest national job growth yet in 2021 and 38 states seeing statistically significant employment increases, July continued recent encouraging trends for the country’s economic trajectory. Despite this, all but two states…
COVID-19 COVID-19, Economy, Employment, Unemployment
May Unemployment Data Do Not Indicate Benefits Are Keeping Workers Home
There has been substantial debate over whether higher levels of unemployment benefits have been keeping workers at home. The April and May state-level unemployment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics offer one piece of evidence that workers are not (illegally)…
COVID-19 COVID-19, Employment, Wages