This Thanksgiving Week’s Essential StateImpact

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This Thanksgiving, we're thankful for you (and your clicks!)

Happy Thanksgiving!  It’s a short week at StateImpact as well, but we’ve still got some content ready to roll out for Black Friday (so check back when you wake up for the second time tomorrow morning).

Today, we’re taking it a bit easy.

But if you’d like a spot of business and economic news between helpings of turkey, or before you rustle up the leftover turkey in the fridge for late-night sandwiches, we’ve got what you’re looking for. Here’s your short holiday week’s edition of Essential StateImpact, our roundup of the stories that the most people were worth checking out:

1. Q&A:  What’s Driving UNH’s High Student Debt Numbers?:  We published this in-depth look at the university’s financial aid situation early last week.  And it looks like you’re still talking about it!
2. Q&A: Explaining Dartmouth’s (Relatively) Low Student Debt Load:  The companion piece to our #1 post this week breaks down why sometimes, an Ivy League education can be cheaper than attending a state school.
3. Mapping Who’s Coming To–And Leaving–New Hampshire: Forbes used IRS data to create a cool map showing where people from every county in the United States moved.  Where is Merrimack County gaining people from?  Where is Coos County losing residents to?  The map reveals all.
4. Losing The Lotto: How A Massachusetts Gas Station Is Eating Into NH’s Education Funding: The most recent installment of our Losing The Lotto series, which looks into why, exactly, the Granite State’s been seeing year after year of lackluster lottery sales.  File this one under “weird but true”: One of the state’s biggest competitors could actually be a gas station in Methuen.  StateImpact checked it out.
5. Latest Links: Layoffs At Health And Human Services, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Presstek:  Last week, we questioned the wisdom of the crowd, and decided to add a couple more posts to our weekly roundup when this little bit of aggregation made the cut.  After all, who doesn’t like to read original stuff?  But what got our attention appears to have gotten–and kept–yours: A day of public and private layoffs and layoff announcements across the state.  Crowd, we accede to your wisdom.