{"id":3657,"date":"2011-12-01T13:37:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:37:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:37:06","slug":"chart-how-nhs-business-concerns-have-changed-since-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/01\/chart-how-nhs-business-concerns-have-changed-since-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart: How NH’s Business Concerns Have Changed Since Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cayusa \/ Flickr<\/p>

What's got NH businesses worried? We've charted out the info!<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, we posted Six Surprising Takeaways from the 2012 NH Business Outlook Survey.\u00a0 (You can read that story here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

One of the things we noted was how concerns that hadn’t really qualified as “major” last year were suddenly a big deal for businesses this year, and vice-versa.\u00a0 The high cost of energy, for example, reappeared in the 2012 Outlook Survey<\/a> after a two year absence.\u00a0 Meanwhile, foreign competition dropped off this year’s list of top 10 concerns.\u00a0 And those aren’t the only big changes in businesses’ worries from last year to now.<\/p>\n

We found this information so interesting that we just couldn’t resist the urge to create a nifty chart based on the survey information.*<\/p>\n

(Just a brief note here–sometimes, to make headings readable, we have to shorten them.\u00a0 “Enviro. Regs.” is an abbreviation for “Too many environmental regulations.”\u00a0 “Lack of Qual. Labor” stands for “Lack of Qualified Labor.”\u00a0 Other, more minor language changes are listed below.**)<\/p>\n