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Operating on Thin Margins: The Cost of Providing New Hampshire Child Care
In this primer, authors Tyrus Parker and Jess Carson summarize available data on the cost of operating a child care program in New Hampshire.
Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program Child Care, Children, Education, Family
New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship Program Reaches Young Children Statewide
In this brief, authors Harshita Sarup and Jess Carson offer an update on enrollment in the New Hampshire Care Scholarship Program and describe the age and geographic distribution of enrolled children.
Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire Child Care, Children, Education, Family, New Hampshire
The New Hampshire Voluntary Paid Family and Medical Leave Program: Did the program increase coverage?
In this brief, author Kristin Smith evaluates whether the New Hampshire Voluntary Paid Family and Medical Leave program increased paid family and medical leave coverage.
New Hampshire Family, New Hampshire, Safety Net
Factors Contributing to the Demographic Cliff: More U.S. Women of Childbearing Age, but Fewer Have Given Birth
In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that in 2024 there were 5.7 million more childless women of prime child-bearing age than would have been expected given fertility patterns prior to the Great Recession.
Demography Birth Rates, Demography, Family, Fertility, Women
Reach and Utility of the New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship Program
In this primer, authors Harshita Sarup and Jess Carson describe the New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship Program after recent policy changes.
Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire Child Care, Children, Family, Income, Low Income, New Hampshire
High Child Care Costs Strain NH Family Budgets
In this primer, authors Tyrus Parker and Jess Carson discuss the cost of child care for New Hampshire families.
Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire Child Care, Children, Family, Income, New Hampshire
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
Fewer Providers, Longer Distances: New Hampshire’s Child Care Landscape
In this primer, authors Jess Carson and Harshita Sarup discuss New Hampshire’s “supply” of child care.
Center for Social Policy in Practice, New Hampshire Child Care, Children, Education, Family, Income, New Hampshire
Preschool Availability in New Hampshire Public Schools
This brief discusses data collected by researchers at the University of New Hampshire in spring 2024 better understand the landscape of preschool offerings in New Hampshire’s public schools.
Center for Social Policy in Practice Child Care, Children, Education, Family, New Hampshire
Granite Guide to Early Childhood: Introduction to New Hampshire’s Child Care Sector
The series of primers discussed in this overview, titled the Granite Guide to Early Childhood, synthesizes the widely disaggregated scholarship on child care in New Hampshire and compiles this work into an unprecedented accessible collection.
Center for Social Policy in Practice Child Care, Children, Education, Family, New Hampshire