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Paid Family and Medical Leave in New Hampshire Life events such as an illness, the birth of a child, or a parent’s need for care require workers to take extended time away from their jobs. The aging of the New Hampshire population and the rise of women in the labor force mean that more workers in the state are likely to need extended time away from work to provide family care. But taking the leave often means loss of pay or even loss of a job.
Access to paid family and medical leave is uneven in New Hampshire. Neither the federal government nor New Hampshire have a paid family and medical leave law or program, thus access to leave depends on whether it is included as a benefit offered by one’s employer. The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows certain workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid—but job-protected—leave to tend to a serious health condition or to care for a new child or a seriously ill relative within a 12-month period. To be eligible for FMLA, employees must work for an employer with 50 or more workers within a 75-mile radius and have worked 1,250 hours for the same employer over the previous year.1 Nationally, about 41 percent of employees are not covered by FMLA.
In New Hampshire, 10 percent of firms employing fewer than 10 employees provided paid family care leave in 2011; among businesses employing 250 or more employees, 30 percent provided paid family care leave.2 Many men face stigma for taking leave, as cultural and workplace attitudes typically view men as breadwinners and women as caregivers.3 Indeed, in New Hampshire, women are more likely to take family and medical leave (paid or unpaid), yet they are less likely to have access to the benefit, according to 2016 Granite State Poll data. Furthermore, workers with the lowest family income lack access to paid leave. The current system, reliant on employer-provided paid leave and unpaid FMLA, is fragmented and unequal, with some workers having access to generous paid leave benefits and others either cobbling together paid and unpaid leave, leaving the labor force, or not providing the needed family care.
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New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Employment, New Hampshire, Public Opinion | Publication |
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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 and losing pay. This brief suggests that the long-term benefits of workers having paid sick days out way the cost for employers because it promotes less contagion among coworkers, increased productivity, and reduced turnover.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Community, Employment, New Hampshire, Safety Net | Publication |
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Parental Substance Use in New Hampshire Hidden in the shadows of New Hampshire’s opioid epidemic are the children who live with their parents’ addiction every day. They fall behind in school as the trouble at home starts to dominate their lives, they make the 911 calls, they are shuttled about to live with relatives or in foster care, and they face an uncertain future when their parents can no longer care for them.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Drugs, Rural, Substance Abuse, Urban | Publication |
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Pembroke Listens: What considerations are most important to the Pembroke Hill Road intersection? The goal of these community conversations was to create an opportunity for citizens to share their thoughts on the challenges, opportunities, issues, and needs relating to changes to an intersection with a history of accidents and assessments for change. An emphasis was placed on hearing citizen's views about unmet needs and innovative approaches to meeting those needs. The community conversations were open to all.
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New Hampshire Listens | Civic Engagement | Publication |
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Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness In this perspectives brief, author Antonio Serna examines both the successful strategies and the challenges faced in implementing permanent supportive housing (PSH) in Massachusetts in the hope that these lessons will further PSH as a solution in other settings.
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Center for Social Policy in Practice | Community, Housing | Publication |
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Pittsfield Listens: Strong Schools, Strong Community In December of 2010, the Pittsfield School District received a one-year planning grant from the Nellie Mae Education Foundation to support the transformation of our middle high school from a traditional school to a student-centered learning environment. The School District has recognized that the Pittsfield Schools, particularly the Middle High School, need to improve
learning outcomes for all students, increase graduation and college-attendance rates, and create a student-centered learning environment that is motivating, engaging, and responsive to the individual needs of each student. Pittsfield is the only community in New Hampshire to receive one of these highly competitive grants.
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New Hampshire Listens | Civic Engagement | Publication |
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Place Matters Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas A survey of 7,800 rural Americans in 19 counties across the country has led to the Carsey Institute's first major publication that outlines four distinctly different rural Americas—amenity, decline, chronic poverty, and those communities in decline that are also amenity-rich—each has unique challenges in this modern era that will require different policies than their rural neighbors.
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Demography, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Demography, Environment, Housing, Public Opinion, Race | Publication |
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Polling and the New Hampshire Primary In this brief, authors David Moore and Andrew Smith discuss caveats that should be considered when interpreting what the polls mean for the February 2020 New Hampshire primary.
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New Hampshire | New Hampshire, Politics and Elections | Publication |
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Population Gains Continue in New Hampshire, but the Pace Varies In this brief, Carsey Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson reports that New Hampshire’s population reached 1,402,054 on July 1, 2023, an increase of 24,500 residents since April 1, 2020, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
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Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, Demography, Migration, Mortality, New Hampshire | Publication |
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Population Gains Widespread in New Hampshire Counties Due to Migration In this data snapshot, Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson reports that the population of New Hampshire grew by 17,700 to 1,395,000 between April 2020, when the 2020 Census was conducted, and July 2022, according to new Census Bureau estimates. These population gains were widespread, occurring in each of the state’s ten counties despite deaths exceeding births in nine of the ten counties.
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Demography, New Hampshire | Birth Rates, COVID-19, Demography, Migration, Mortality, New Hampshire | Publication |
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Population Growth in New Hispanic Destinations Natural increase—more births than deaths—is now the major engine of Hispanic population growth in many large metro areas and their suburbs, as well as numerous smaller metropolitan areas and rural communities. Hispanics now account for half of U.S. population growth, and Hispanic population growth is the reason many communities grew instead of declined.
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Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Hispanics, Mortality, Race, Rural, Urban | Publication |
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Population, Greenspace, and Development An ongoing concern in both urban and rural America is the tradeoff between residential and commercial development and the conservation of forestland, shrublands, and grasslands, commonly referred to as greenspace. As communities develop, adding schools, housing, infrastructure, and the commercial space needed for an expanding population and economy, greenspace remains critical because it contributes to air and water purification, storm abatement, and enhanced human health and quality of life
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Community, Environment, and Climate Change, Demography | Community Development, Demography, Environment | Publication |
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Practitioners' Guide to Community Lending for a Just and Equitable Energy Transition In this guide, authors Curtis Probst, Tina Poole Johnson, and Hannah Vargason share a collection of key resources and references that provide an entry point to clean energy finance for community lending practitioners and to community development finance for green lenders.
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Center for Impact Finance | Community Development Finance, Energy, Environment | Publication |
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Promise and Responsibility of Community Finance, The Community development finance has played an important role in community revitalization over the past 30 years and may be even more important in the current financial climate. But today community development finance institutions (CDFIs), as well as many community banks and credit unions face significant funding stress. This brief highlights the importance of refocusing support of CDFIs to sustain and rebuild health communities across the United States.
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Center for Impact Finance | Community Development Finance | Publication |
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Proposed EITC Expansion Would Increase Eligibility and Dollars for Rural and Urban “Childless” Workers This brief uses data from the 2013 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey to examine how President Obama’s proposed expanded eligibility and higher credit values might affect tax filers in both rural and urban America.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Employment, Rural, Safety Net, Tax, Urban | Publication |
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Providing Clean Energy Solutions to India’s Bottom of the Pyramid Population In this white paper, Jill Howard, Fiona Wilson, and E. Hachemi Aliouche discuss how Oorja Development Solutions, a social enterprise based in India, is working to provide integrated energy solutions to revitalize the agrarian economy, alleviate poverty, and fight climate change in rural India.
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Changemaker Collaborative | Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Poverty | Publication |
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Psychotropic Medication Use Among Children in the Child Welfare System Prior research demonstrates that children in the child welfare system are given psychotropic medication at rates approximately three times higher than children and adolescents in the general population.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health | Publication |
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Public Awareness of Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Is Rising Among scientists who study the Earth’s climate, there is overwhelming agreement that humans are causing rapid change.1 Surveys find that the U.S. public underestimates the extent to which scientists agree on this point,2 but public awareness is gradually rising (Figure 1).
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Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Public Opinion | Publication |
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Public Insurance Drove Overall Coverage Growth Among Children in 2012 Using data from the American Community Survey, this brief examines the rates of health insurance coverage among children under 18 in the United States by region and by rural, suburban, and central city residence between 2008 and 2012.
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Vulnerable Families Research Program | Children, Health Insurance | Publication |
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Public Knowledge About Polar Regions Increases While Concerns Remain Unchanged The authors of this brief conduct the first comparative analysis of the polar questions that were part of the National Opinion Research Center's 2006 and 2010 General Social Survey. Developed by scientists at the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs, these questions covered topics such as climate change, melting ice and rising sea levels, and species extinction.
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Community, Environment, and Climate Change | Environment, Public Opinion | Publication |