A new report from Credit Suisse has been getting a fair bit of buzz in the business press, largely thanks to the graph below. The report focused on how urbanization affects developing economies. As an example of the differences between rural and urban productivity, researchers broke down government data on American GDP by state and […]
Earlier today, we reposted our Losing The Lotto series to give you a bit of context about why the Mega Millions frenzy is particularly important to New Hampshire’s struggling lottery. Since we posted, the jackpot’s increased yet again–from $540 million to $640 million. Not surprising given AP’s report of 27,000 transactions an hour in New […]
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 […]
Recently, Wells Fargo Securities released a short report offering a state-by-state look at the places that could be hardest-hit by a potential European recession. Since New Hampshire has carved out a healthy niche for itself in the high-tech components export market, we thought this report might be of interest to our StateImpact readers. For its […]
Recently, we’ve been looking into student debt in New Hampshire. (You can read the initial posts here and here.) As the Project on Student Debt reports, the Class of 2010 took on a record amount of loans–an average of $25,250 nationally. And the newly-graduated in New Hampshire took on the heaviest burden in the country, […]
Here’s a new map from the Tax Foundation showing growth of high-income taxpayers from 1999-2009. What’s particularly interesting about these numbers is that they straddle pre- and post-recession years. So StateImpact naturally wondered, did the recession dramatically change where the high income bracket grew?
This week, Comcast invited business leaders, elected officials, and the media to an event at the company’s new warehouse and inspection station in Salem, NH. Although the facility officially “opened” on August 17th, it had actually been up and running for a couple of months. (The Boston Globe ran a story about the facility two days before […]
According to the Tax Foundation, 6.9 percent of New Hampshire’s direct spending went toward interest payments on debt in FY 2009. The only state that devoted a higher portion of its funds to interest was…Massachusetts, at 9.58 percent. (You can find more surprising comparisons between New Hampshire and Massachusetts here.) Overall, New England eats up a goodly portion of the […]
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