{"id":656,"date":"2011-08-09T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=656"},"modified":"2011-08-09T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T17:12:49","slug":"were-2-for-percentage-of-spending-on-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/08\/09\/were-2-for-percentage-of-spending-on-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re #2&#8230;For Percentage Of Spending On Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a title=\"Tax Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/taxfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Foundation<\/a>, 6.9 percent of New Hampshire&#8217;s direct spending\u00a0went toward interest payments on debt in FY 2009.\u00a0The only state that devoted a higher portion of\u00a0its funds to\u00a0interest was&#8230;Massachusetts, at 9.58 percent.\u00a0 (You can find\u00a0more surprising comparisons between New Hampshire and Massachusetts <a title=\" Six Ways To Look At How NH Does \u2014 And Doesn\u2019t \u2014 Attract Economic Development\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/08\/04\/six-ways-to-look-at-how-nh-does-%e2%80%94-and-doesnt-%e2%80%94-attract-economic-development\/#more-561\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Overall, New England eats up a goodly portion of the Top Ten, with Rhode Island at No. 3 and\u00a0Connecticut at No. 4.\u00a0\u00a0Vermont, meanwhile,\u00a0just misses the top ten at No. 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Maine\u00a0makes the most respectable showing in New England at No. 20, with 3.67 percent\u00a0of state\u00a0spending going toward interest.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_664\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-664\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/08\/09\/were-2-for-percentage-of-spending-on-debt\/interest_large-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-664\" title=\"State Interest Payments As A Percentage Of Direct Spending: Fiscal Year 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/08\/interest_large1-620x487.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/08\/interest_large1-620x487.png 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/08\/interest_large1-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/08\/interest_large1-220x172.png 220w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2011\/08\/interest_large1.png 940w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Tax Foundation<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most of the bottom 10 states for direct spending on interest payments are in the Northeast, while the top 10 are scattered throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, and Intermountain West.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Tax Foundation, 6.9 percent of New Hampshire&#8217;s direct spending\u00a0went toward interest payments on debt in FY 2009.\u00a0The only state that devoted a higher portion of\u00a0its funds to\u00a0interest was&#8230;Massachusetts, at 9.58 percent.\u00a0 (You can find\u00a0more surprising comparisons between New Hampshire and Massachusetts here.) Overall, New England eats up a goodly portion of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[120,121,116,525,85,526,117,494,104,118],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}