New Hampshire
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Stay or Leave Coös County? Parents' Messages Matter When it comes to deciding whether to stay in New Hampshire's rural Coös County or leave for other opportunities, young people are listening to their parents. Surveying 78 percent of all seventh and eleventh graders in public schools in Coös County, researchers… |
New Hampshire | Coös Youth Study, Family, Migration, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Navigating the Teen Years: Promise and Peril for Northern New Hampshire Youth This report provides a snapshot of how youth are doing in Carroll, Coos, and Grafton counties and describes some of the difficulties they and their communities face as they negotiate the transition to adulthood. The study is based on data from several agencies that… |
New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Paid Sick Time Helps Workers Balance Work and Family In New Hampshire, workers fare better than workers nationally, yet one-quarter of Granite State workers do not have paid sick days. The lack of paid sick days places workers in a bind. They are forced to choose between caring for a sick family member or themselves… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Community, Employment, New Hampshire, Safety Net |
| Experience of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund in Mainstreaming of Acquisition Loans to Cooperative Manufactured Housing Communities, The This study aimed to provide evidence of the extent to which a financial product―land acquisition loans for manufactured home parks―performed well and was adopted by mainstream financial institutions. The study hypothesized that The New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s… |
Evaluation, New Hampshire | Economic Development, Housing, New Hampshire |
| Youth Aspirations and Sense of Place in a Changing Rural Economy: The Coös Youth Study Youth in rural Coös County have surprisingly strong ties to their communities, finds a new report from the Carsey Institute. The brief is the first to report on a ten-year panel study of students who began seventh and eleventh grades in 2007 in Coös, New Hampshire… |
New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, Health, New Hampshire, Rural, Young Adults |
| Many New Voters Make the Granite State One to Watch in November A third of potential voters in New Hampshire during the fall of 2008 have become eligible to vote in the state. Further, these potential new voters are more likely to identify with the Democratic Party and less likely to identify as Republicans than are established… |
New Hampshire | New Hampshire, Politics and Elections |
| Many New Hampshire Jobs Do Not Pay a Livable Wage As the U.S. economy falters and recession looms, 79 percent of jobs in New Hampshire do not pay a wage sufficient for single-parent families with two children to provide basic needs such as housing, food, transportation, child care, and health care. Carroll County… |
New Hampshire | Employment, Family, New Hampshire, Poverty, Wages |
| A Profile of New Hampshire's Foreign-Born Population At the turn of the 20th century, New Hampshire had over 88,000 foreign-born persons, over 15,000 more than it has today. In 1900, the state's concentration of foreign born (21 percent) was higher than the national average percentage and more than three times the… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Demography, Immigration, New Hampshire |
| The State of Coös County: Local Perspectives on Community and Change Coös County residents are largely optimistic about their future despite significant economic challenges, especially in the Berlin/Gorham area. As part of a three-pronged effort to understand the ongoing changes in New Hampshire's North Country and surrounding… |
New Hampshire | Community, Community Development, Coös Youth Study, Economic Development, New Hampshire, Public Opinion |
| The Changing Faces of New Hampshire New Hampshire, with a total population of 1.3 million, gained 79,000 residents between 2000 and 2006. Most of this growth - 51,000 residents - came from migration. The migration also brought economic gains: New Hampshire gained at least $1.4 billion in income from… |
Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, Demography, Hispanics, Migration, New England, New Hampshire |
