Posts by Jess Williams
New Hampshire’s story is often told through familiar but false assumptions: retirees driving population change, Massachusetts buyers pushing up home prices, and a uniquely low-tax landscape keeping the state affordable. But the latest data tells a different and more nuanced story.
Among the four featured panels, speakers shared ideas around collaboration, increased investment, and data-driven decision making as promising solutions for addressing the most pressing challenges in health care, caregiving, housing, and the state’s rural communities.
An average of 9,095 Manchester residents were enrolled in Granite Advantage in 2024, representing 14.7 percent of the total average number enrolled in the program during that year. Nashua (5,209 adults), Concord (2,455 adults), and Rochester (2,284 adults) all had two thousand or more residents receiving Granite Advantage coverage due to each municipality’s large population size.
About 9,300 Granite Staters with current long-COVID symptoms may still experience impacts to their work, with approximately 5,300 workers reducing their hours and an estimated 4,000 leaving the workforce entirely.
As 2025 approaches, the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute rounded up 10 fiscal facts to help inform the Granite State’s public policy conversations in the New Year.
New Hampshire maintained the lowest official state-level poverty rate in the nation in 2023, but other poverty-related data show that the Granite State does not have the least economic hardship by all measures.
New Hampshire’s 2024 legislative session resulted in key policy changes and investments proposed by the State Legislature. Although several have already been signed, many of these bills still await consideration by the Governor. While 2024 was not a State Budget year for the Legislature, available surplus funds, flexible American Rescue Plan Act dollarsand other federal resources, and borrowed money for capital projects resulted in initiatives that, if approved, would include significant investments.Â