{"id":4549,"date":"2011-12-22T11:19:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2012-01-10T17:06:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T22:06:46","slug":"new-hampshire-republicans-worry-about-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/22\/new-hampshire-republicans-worry-about-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s All Relative”: Economy Remains Atop NH Voters’ Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gliko \/ Flickc<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As NHPR’s Dan Gorenstein<\/a> reports, despite the fact that New Hampshire’s economy is stronger than most of the country’s and has an unemployment rate well below the national average, Republican voters are still worried about their future. As New Hampshire economist Ross Gittell puts it: “It’s all relative.”<\/p>\n

Gittell told Gorenstein:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe national unemployment rate is 8.6 percent. New Hampshire, it\u2019s currently 5.2 percent. New Hampshire has relatively high per capita income. Lowest poverty rate in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Gittell is quick to add, it\u2019s all relative. Like most everywhere else in the country, New Hampshire has lost jobs, had its confidence shaken.<\/p>\n

‘The economic outlook for families across New Hampshire has declined quite significantly since the last primary.’<\/p>\n

During the Recession, in and around New Hampshire, residential construction work dried up.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gorenstein also spoke to Republican voters and found that for many people the economy frames how they will vote in the primary \u2014 though some residents are still undecided:<\/p>\n

“The Maloys are among the most affluent in the state. They run a successful mail order business expecting to gross more than $40 million this year. So successful, they actually want to expand their company, create new jobs. But with so much economic uncertainty, Joe says the company can\u2019t move right now.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s unknown is, is that $10 an hour employee going to cost me $15, or is it going to be $18, $20, $25?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Maloys don\u2019t know who they\u2019ll vote for yet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gliko \/ Flickc As NHPR’s Dan Gorenstein reports, despite the fact that New Hampshire’s economy is stronger than most of the country’s and has an unemployment rate well below the national average, Republican voters are still worried about their future. As New Hampshire economist Ross Gittell puts it: “It’s all relative.” Gittell told Gorenstein:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[185,227,501,131],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4563,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions\/4563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}