{"id":4404,"date":"2011-12-16T15:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T20:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2011-12-16T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T19:08:10","slug":"this-weeks-essential-stateimpact-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/16\/this-weeks-essential-stateimpact-7\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Essential StateImpact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4405\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/12\/5474804104_14a6a5c9f8_z.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4405\" title=\"Hotels And Pounds\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/12\/5474804104_14a6a5c9f8_z-620x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/12\/5474804104_14a6a5c9f8_z-620x352.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/12\/5474804104_14a6a5c9f8_z-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/12\/5474804104_14a6a5c9f8_z-220x125.jpg 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/12\/5474804104_14a6a5c9f8_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Images_of_Money \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s time for our weekly roundup of the StateImpact posts you thought--pound for pound--were the most intriguing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s late on a Friday afternoon&#8230;which means it&#8217;s time for us to pass along the StateImpact posts that drew the most clicks.\u00a0 So if your computer caught fire, your iPhone broke, or life otherwise happened and you missed one of our &#8220;talker&#8221; pieces&#8230;you&#8217;re in luck!<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a title=\"How Defense Cuts Hurt New England Lobstermen\u2013And Maybe Even Lowered Lobster Prices\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/12\/how-defense-cuts-hurt-new-england-lobstermen-and-lowered-lobster-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Defense Cuts Hurt New England Lobstermen\u2013And Maybe Even Lowered Lobster Prices<\/a>: This was by far our most popular post of the week.\u00a0 Using coverage from the <em>New Hampshire Business Review<\/em>, we trace how a single lost government contract can hit a local industry especially hard.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Economics And Politics Clash Over NH Tax Revenue Forecast\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/14\/economics-and-politics-clash-over-nh-tax-revenue-forecast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economics And Politics Clash Over NH Tax Revenue Forecast<\/a>:\u00a0 Economic forecasts can by dry events.\u00a0 But an economist&#8217;s presentation to legislative committees focusing on design flaws in the New Hampshire tax system created some philosophical fireworks with one Republican legislator.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"How A European Recession Could Hurt Key Export States\u2013Including NH\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/07\/how-a-european-recession-could-hurt-key-export-states-including-nh\/\" target=\"_blank\">How A European Recession Could Hurt Key Export States\u2013Including NH<\/a>: Whispers of a potential European recession in economic circles has policy makers at both the state and national levels considering what that could do to our export economy.\u00a0 We break down a recent report by Wells Fargo Securities and pass along a cool infographic from Stateline of what, exactly, a Eurozone recession would mean for states in term of their GDP.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Losing The Lotto: Comparing NH\u2019s Lotto Prizes To Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/06\/losing-the-lotto-comparing-nhs-lotto-prizes-to-massachusetts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Losing The Lotto: Comparing NH\u2019s Lotto Prizes To Massachusetts<\/a>: This post generated a lot of interest when we published it earlier this month.\u00a0 And a lot of you are still intrigued.\u00a0 For this piece, we look into what, exactly, the difference is in payout for the Mass Lottery vs. the New Hampshire Lottery.\u00a0 And we threw in a nifty table laying it all out.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Part 1: Which NH Counties Won New Residents\u2013And Lost Old Ones\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/11\/22\/part-1-which-nh-counties-won-new-residents-and-lost-old-ones\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1: Which NH Counties Won New Residents\u2013And Lost Old\u00a0Ones<\/a>: The first part in our occasional demographics breaking down migration patterns in New Hampshire, county-by-county.\u00a0 And just to keep things interesting, we arrange the info as bullet lists, complete with biggest wins and losses for each county.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s late on a Friday afternoon&#8230;which means it&#8217;s time for us to pass along the StateImpact posts that drew the most clicks.\u00a0 So if your computer caught fire, your iPhone broke, or life otherwise happened and you missed one of our &#8220;talker&#8221; 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