Publications
January 22, 2026
In this primer, authors Tyrus Parker and Jess Carson summarize available data on the cost of operating a child care program in New Hampshire.
January 16, 2026
This report focuses on how the “community finance sector” engages in “low-income climate finance” projects such as those that create clean, affordable energy and improve the resilience of housing and communities.
January 8, 2026
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.
January 6, 2026
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.
October 16, 2025
This report summarizes key themes that emerged from the 2025 Financial Innovations Roundtable (FIR). FIR has long served as a forum for creating cross-sector partnerships to expand access to capital in low-income communities. This year’s convening focused on the challenge of developing and preserving housing that is affordable to low- and moderate-income residents without direct federal subsidies…
September 10, 2025
In this working paper, authors Michael Swack and Sara Razavi discuss merger, acquisition, and other forms of integration to fulfill the CDFI mission more effectively, efficiently, and expeditiously to stem the widening wealth gap.
September 3, 2025
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.
August 6, 2025
In this brief, author Lawrence Hamilton explores the results of a nationwide 2025 survey that asked over 1,000 people whether they agreed with conspiratorial claims such as government control of hurricanes, flat Earth, or faked Moon landings. Mixed in with the conspiracy questions were others asking about agreement with basic scientific facts, such as Earth orbiting the Sun.
May 12, 2025
In this perspectives brief, authors Megan Mahajan and Eric Hangen discuss new analysis by Energy Innovation that has now estimated how far the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will go toward its economic development goals.
April 24, 2025
In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that New National Center for Health Statistics data for 2024 show a slight increase in annual births and the birth rate from 2023.
March 18, 2025
In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that New Hampshire’s population reached 1,409,032 on July 1, 2024, an increase of 6,800 since July 2023, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
March 13, 2025
In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that only 3,606,000 babies were born in the United States between July 2023 and July 2024, according to new Census Bureau estimates. This is 43,000 fewer babies than the year before, which barely exceeds the 43-year low in 2020–2021.
February 18, 2025
In this primer, authors Harshita Sarup and Jess Carson describe the New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship Program after recent policy changes.
January 21, 2025
In this brief, authors Kenneth Johnson and Tyrus Parker report that New Hampshire had a net migration gain of 26,000 during the era of the Covid pandemic (from 2020 to 2022). This was a significant increase from the net migration gain of 17,000 in the three years prior to the pandemic.
December 19, 2024
In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that New England’s population gain of 123,000 (0.8 percent) between July 2023 and July 2024 was its largest in recent years, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
November 19, 2024
In this primer, authors Tyrus Parker and Jess Carson discuss the cost of child care for New Hampshire families.
November 13, 2024
In this brief, author Kenneth Johnson reports that rural America is now gaining population again after a decade of loss.
October 30, 2024
In this brief, authors Anna Maccaroni, Emily Whitmore, and Lindsey Williams discuss the results of a June 2024 statewide survey of New Hampshire residents to understand their perceptions of aquaculture.
October 23, 2024
In this brief, authors Dante Scala and Kenneth Johnson estimate how much a slightly better (or worse) performance by the candidates in the rural areas of seven battleground states could influence the outcome of the 2024 election.
October 7, 2024
Since the 2020 New Hampshire Civic Health Index was published, there have been significant changes to the country that may have impacted civic health in New Hampshire. We have experienced the Covid-19 pandemic, a rise in social justice efforts, the 2020 presidential election, and the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol. This report focuses on the civic health of New Hampshire from…
