Publications

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A Descriptive Study of Covid-Era Movers to the Northern Forest Region
Jess Carson, Sarah Boege, Libby Schwaner
August 9, 2023
The Northern Forest—a 34-county swath of northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York—saw an increase in domestic migration during the pandemic, with 85 percent of the region’s counties experiencing domestic in-migration gains between 2020 and 2021, compared with 63 percent of counties in the rest of the United States.
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New Englanders’ Use of Child Care Varies by Income, Even Among Working Households
Jess Carson
July 20, 2023
In this data snapshot, author Jess Carson reports that data from the U.S. Census Bureau collected between January and May 2023 show that access to child care remains uneven.
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New England Households Rely on a Mix of Child Care Arrangements
Jess Carson
July 12, 2023
In this data snapshot, author Jess Carson reports that data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau between January and May 2023 show that 70 percent of New England households with a child under five use child care, and more than one-third of those rely on multiple arrangements.
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New Hampshire Parents Use Child Care but Seek More Options
Jess Carson, Sarah Boege
March 28, 2023
In this brief, authors Jess Carson and Sarah Boege describe child care use and gaps among respondents to the 2022 New Hampshire Preschool Development Grant Family Needs Assessment Survey.
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Supportive Program Strengths and Gaps for New Hampshire Families
Sarah Boege, Jess Carson
March 28, 2023
In this brief, authors Sarah Boege and Jess Carson describe child and family program use and gaps among respondents to the 2022 New Hampshire Preschool Development Grant Family Needs Assessment Survey.
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Local Civic Health
Quixada Moore-Vissing, Carrie Portrie, E Michele Holt-Shannon, Bruce Mallory, Jess Carson, Daniel Bromberg, Sarah Boege, Carly Prescott, Stephanie McNally, Mikayla Townsend
March 14, 2023
This seven-part guide is designed to help people at the local level collect data to better understand what factors bring people together or push them apart. This information can help communities to thrive and strengthen democracy at the local level.
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Changing Child Care Supply in New Hampshire and Vermont’s Upper Valley
Jess Carson, Sarah Boege
March 7, 2023
In this brief, authors Jess Carson and Sarah Boege describe changes in the early childhood education and care landscape of Grafton and Sullivan Counties in New Hampshire and Orange and Windsor Counties in Vermont, collectively known as the Upper Valley.
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Child Care Investments and Policies in the Upper Valley, in the Pandemic and Beyond
Sarah Boege, Jess Carson, Kamala Nasirova
March 7, 2023
In this brief, the authors illustrate New Hampshire and Vermont’s different responses to supporting the early childhood education and care sector during the COVID-19 pandemic and examine the limited publicly available data on pandemic relief funds through the lens of the interstate Upper Valley region.
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Why Interstate Child Care Scholarship Policy Choices Matter in the Upper Valley
Sarah Boege, Jess Carson
March 7, 2023
In this brief, the authors explore how state-level decisions in New Hampshire and Vermont manifest in the early childhood education and care sector, through the lens of the interstate Upper Valley region.
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Childcare Remains Out of Reach for Millions in 2021, Leading to Disproportionate Job Losses for Black, Hispanic, and Low-Income Families
Jonathan Koltai, Jess Carson, Rebecca Glauber
December 23, 2021
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.