Publications

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Social Connections, Safety, and Local Environment in Three Manchester, New Hampshire, Neighborhoods
Justin Young
November 12, 2014
This fact sheet uses data from a survey of Bakersville, Beech Street, and Gossler Park residents in Manchester, New Hampshire, to draw attention to the current state of connectedness, trust, and perceptions of the local environment in these three neighborhoods.
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What Do We Value?: The Future of Education in Newmarket
E Michele Holt-Shannon, Bruce Mallory, Quixada Moore-Vissing
November 8, 2014
During the summer and fall of 2014, a group of volunteers comprised of Newmarket residents organized Newmarket Common Ground and worked with New Hampshire Listens to design a community conversation about the future of education for the town. The conversation was intended to help Newmarket residents to engage in respectful conversation so that the community could move forward in light of the...
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Restraint and Seclusion of Students With a Disability Continue to Be Common in Some School Districts Patterns Remain Relatively Consistent Despite Recent Policy Changes
Douglas Gagnon, Marybeth Mattingly, Vincent Connelly
October 28, 2014
In 2013, Carsey released a brief that analyzed rates of restraint and seclusion using a large, nationally representative data set of U.S. school districts. This brief, which analyzes a more comprehensive data set and the most current Civil Rights Data Collection, serves as a follow-up to the pre­vious brief.
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Health Insurance Among Young Adults Rebounds Post Recession: More Become Dependents on a Parent's Plan After ACA Extends Coverage to Adult Children
Michael Staley, Jess Carson
October 21, 2014
While much of the existing research explores young adults' insurance only in the post-recession period (that is, 2010 to present), authors Michael Staley and Jessica Carson assess young adults' rates of coverage within and beyond the context of the recession by examining changes across the entire 2007 to 2012 period.
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Is Granite State Government as Efficient, Transparent and Innovative as It Can Be?
E Michele Holt-Shannon, Bruce Mallory, Quixada Moore-Vissing
September 25, 2014
The New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Innovation, Efficiency, and Transparency in State Government was established by Governor Hassan in 2013. In June of 2014, the Commission contracted with NH Listens to host conversations around the state with citizens, state employees, and vendors to gather information about ways to improve state government functions, with a particular focus on the...
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Cause for Optimism? Child Poverty Declines for the First Time Since Before the Great Recession
Marybeth Mattingly, Jess Carson, Andrew Schaefer
September 19, 2014
New data released on September 18, 2014, by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that child poverty fell by 0.4 percentage point between 2012 and 2013, to 22.2 percent. Though still significantly higher than in 2007 when the Great Recession hit (18.0 percent), and higher than at its conclusion (20.0 percent) in 2009, the decline from 2012 may be cause for optimism. Estimates suggest the number of poor...
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Key Findings and Recommendations from the Coös Youth Study
Eleanor Jaffee, Michael Staunton
September 3, 2014
In this brief, authors Michael Staunton and Eleanor Jaffee review the key findings and recommendations from research conducted in the first half of the Coös Youth Study, which began in 2008 and is planned to continue through 2018.
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Families Continue to Rely on Wives As Breadwinners Post-Recession
Kristin Smith, Andrew Schaefer
July 29, 2014
This brief presents an analysis of the increased role employed wives played in family economic stability prior to, during, and after the Great Recession, focusing on changes in the contribution of employed wives’ earnings to family earnings by state, region, metropolitan areas, and nonmetro residence.
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Related Foster Parents Less Likely to Receive Support Services Compared With Nonrelative Foster Parents
Wendy Walsh, Marybeth Mattingly
July 15, 2014
This brief identifies gaps in support services among foster parents using data from a nationally representative survey of children involved in the child welfare system (the second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being).
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New Futures: Community Conversations on Drugs and Alcohol
E Michele Holt-Shannon, Bruce Mallory, Quixada Moore-Vissing
June 30, 2014
In February and March of 2014, residents from across the state of New Hampshire gathered to discuss issues related to substance use and addiction in the Granite State. Fifteen groups met in nine regions of the state including Berlin, Derry, Keene, Laconia, Lebanon, Manchester, Nashua, Rochester, and Portsmouth. In addition, a conversation with business leaders about substance use in New Hampshire...