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October 24, 2012

UNH Researchers Announce New Economic Index For Hospitality Industry And More

A team of researchers at the University of New Hampshire has announced a new economic tool — something they’ve been developing for almost 12 years.  The Lodging Executive Sentiment Index, or LESI, is based on a monthly survey of 20 lodging executives who run more than 55 percent of all lodging rooms in the country. […]

New Hampshire Employers Pay High Workers Comp Premiums Relative To Nation

New Hampshire employers pay the 9th highest workers compensation premiums in the nation, according to a report from the Oregon Department of Consumer And Business Services. New Hampshire’s average premium of $2.40 per $100 of payroll is 128 percent of the national median. Click on the interactive map below, for more details.

October 12, 2012

Outside Spending on New Hampshire Governor’s Race Continues To Rise

This following was contributed by Brian Wallstin. In what will likely be the most expensive gubernatorial campaign in New Hampshire history, independent political groups supporting candidates Maggie Hassan and Ovide Lamontagne have reserved nearly $7.5 million worth of television ads in the final month of the election.

October 3, 2012

Starting A Business: The New Retirement?

We all know that Americans are living and working longer. According to AARP, only 13 percent of Americans expect not to return to work after they hit “traditional retirement age.” But just as Americans are able and wanting to work longer — the recession has left many aging adults out of work. And those older […]

September 28, 2012

N.H.’s Productivity Weakening As Neighboring Economies Grow

New Hampshire may have weathered the recession relatively well, but as other states’ economies are growing, New Hampshire’s is slowing down.  That’s the word from the Center for Public Policy Studies, which released a report this week outlining some discouraging trends in New Hampshire’s economy. One of the study’s authors, Dennis Delay, spoke with NHPR’s Brady […]

September 26, 2012

Obama For America N.H. Rallies Small Business Owners

Small business owners are a contested demographic for the battling presidential campaigns. A September poll from George Washington University suggests the President is leading Governor Romney in support from small business owners, while an August poll by Manta put Romney in the lead with a wide margin.

Who Built What? Diving Deeper Into ‘We Built This’ Campaign Rhetoric

The three words of what has become Governor Romney’s campaign slogan, “We Built This,” are hard to avoid these days. One could argue they exemplify a political rhetoric that pits business-loving Romney supporters against government-loving supporters of President Obama. And although “we built this” has become a rallying cry for the right, we found that […]

September 20, 2012

N.H. Has Lowest Child Poverty Rate In U.S.

The Census Bureau has some good news for New Hampshire: The state has the lowest child poverty rate in the country.  For a family with two parents and two kids, the government considers “poverty” as an annual income of $22,811.  So these results are not terribly surprising in a state that has one of the […]

September 18, 2012

Lynch Promotes Lean Government at Summit

It’s not every day you hear state officials quoting Kipling and Goethe. But in a keynote speech this morning, Sam McKeeman, the Programs Manager at the Maine Bureau of Human Resources, recited the first stanza of Kipling’s “Six Honest Serving Men” to 350 or so people, gathered at the Police Standards & Training Council building […]

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