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March 23, 2012

This Week’s Essential StateImpact

Good afternoon!  As usual, we’ve got this week’s roundup of our top five posts.  This week, they spanned a number of economic themes: How State Budget Cuts Hit Nursing For Sick Kids: NHPR’s Dan Gorenstein takes us inside the state’s process of evaluating how much Medicaid-funded nursing assistance New Hampshire’s most disabled kids get. Charting NH’s […]

March 16, 2012

This Week’s Essential StateImpact

Happy Friday!  As always, we’d like to celebrate the end of the work week by bringing you up to speed with our most popular posts: How Apps Are Keeping Ski Areas Honest: A pair of Dartmouth researchers take on tales of ski resorts exaggerating snowfall…and find that apps are helping to curb fibbing. How Landowners […]

March 15, 2012

Report: NH Barely Passes On Government Spending Transparency

New Hampshire has a long history of frugality.  And with the current crop of spending hawks in the legislature, that sense of thrift has only intensified. But you’ll have a hard time if you want to keep tabs on state spending online. That’s according to “Following The Money 2012,” a report published by the clunky-titled […]

March 7, 2012

Gen Y Struggles With Declining Wages

Whether it’s rising student debt levels, the Occupy movement, or fitting into a changing job market, news outlets (including StateImpact) are increasingly interested in how Gen Y is adapting to the slow recovery. Their overarching conclusion: Coping with a struggling economy has clearly been tough on the early-30’s-and-younger set. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports […]

Why A Business Magazine Named SNHU One Of World’s Most Innovative Companies

Looking at media rankings of companies–“Most Innovative,” “Fastest-Growing,” or other roundups of various firms–we aren’t often surprised.  Take the magazine Fast Company.  For this month’s issue, they’ve listed “The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.”  Dominating the Top 4 are the perennial occupants of the corporate Cool Kids’ Table: Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Normally, we’d […]

February 27, 2012

“Brain Waste” In New Hampshire

As part of New Hampshire’s Immigration Story, we’ve been looking at the economic impact of immigrants on the Granite State’s economy. The latest census data show that New Hampshire’s educated immigrants might be exceptionally underutilized. “A recent study by the American Enterprise Institute found that for every 100 educated immigrants working in Science, Technology, Engineering […]

February 24, 2012

This Week’s Essential StateImpact

In a lot of ways, Friday afternoon is the perfect time for catching-up.  It’s too early to clock out, but too late to start a big new project.  And at StateImpact, we tend to think it’s also a great time to catch you up on New Hampshire’s business and economy news.  Here’s your weekly roundup […]

Thirty Years Of Low Child And Senior Poverty In NH

We’re all about cool maps at StateImpact, and we just couldn’t resist sharing this one on the changing face of child and senior poverty over the past 30 years.  Demographer Kenneth Johnson at the Carsey Institute recently crunched some 2010 Census data, and working with a team at USA Today, came up with a cool […]

February 17, 2012

This Week’s Essential StateImpact

Happy Friday, StateImpact readers!  As usual at this time on a Friday afternoon, we’d like to take a moment to call up our most popular posts, just in case you missed them. So with that in mind, we now present This Week’s Essential StateImpact! A Look Inside An Advanced NH Factory: Our first foray into […]

February 13, 2012

Where NH Residents Depend On Government Benefits The Most

Perhaps unsurprisingly, small government–at all levels–is something of a signature issue in the “Live Free or Die” state.  But amid the push among state GOP lawmakers to to keep the federal government out of issues ranging from health care to education, the New York Times reports,  individual dependence on government aid has increased dramatically across […]

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