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March 16, 2012

How State Budget Cuts Hit Nursing For Sick Kids

Over the last year, dozens of families have lost state subsidized nursing support to care for their sick children. Some parents say the reductions have made it hard to juggle work and keep their kids healthy. New Hampshire hired a private company, Schaller Anderson to manage these cases. Frustrated parents accuse the company of making […]

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 14, 2012

Charting NH’s Incredible Shrinking Government

Two hallmarks of Republican legislative leadership these past couple of sessions have been a commitment to small government and the use of deep cuts to state government to bridge budget gaps. And now that the state’s released its dryly-titled “Comprehensive Annual Financial Report: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2011,” we can get our […]

December 30, 2011

State Budget Cuts Hurt Health, Higher Education And Essential Services The Most

A look back at this year’s major state budget cuts shows who took the hardest hits in New Hampshire. As the Nashua Telegraph reports, with $1 billion slashed from the budget, more agencies than usual felt the effects. Republican legislators heralded the budget as a victory for smaller government, shaving more than $1 billion, or 11 […]

December 14, 2011

Economics And Politics Clash Over NH Tax Revenue Forecast

Yesterday, StateImpact liveblogged the Joint Economic Session. Members of the House and Senate Finance and Ways and Means Committees gathered for hours to hear economists offer projections on where the global, national, and state economies are headed in 2012. Admittedly, it was pretty dry stuff. And we were ready to do what we’ve done with […]

November 15, 2011

Q&A: What’s Driving UNH’s High Student Debt Numbers?

Starting last week, and continuing today, we’ve been focusing on a report from the Project on Student Debt. Nationally, the average Class of 2010 student graduated with $25,250 in loans, while New Hampshire alumni carried student debt loads of $31,048, on average. Although it’s clear that average student debt in New Hampshire is high, there […]

October 17, 2011

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Starts The Week With 100 Fewer Employees

For most New Hampshire residents, last Friday was the end of a short, post-Columbus Day week. But for 100 employees of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, last Friday was their last day at work. Like most large hospitals in the state, DHMC says changes the legislature made this summer in how the state compensates providers for Medicaid […]

August 19, 2011

More Hospital Layoffs Blamed On Budget Cuts

Yesterday, we posted the blog equivalent of a highlights reel for a New York Times article. The newspaper’s piece examined how state and federal budget cuts are taking the steam out of the health care industry’s role as one of the country’s few job creators. Eliot Health System in Manchester got a mention, as the […]

August 18, 2011

Health Care Job Boom Could Soon Slow

This week, New York Times reporters Reed Abelson and Katie Thomas took on a sticky issue–as the federal and state governments cut into health care funding their budgets can’t support, can the health care industry continue to generate much-needed jobs? The answer, it seems, is no.

August 16, 2011

Why Hospitals Are Angry Enough About New Medicaid Legislation To Sue

Michael McCord of the New Hampshire Business Review provides a good synopsis of why ten hospital administrators are so upset about the latest state budget that they’ve filed a lawsuit.