New Hampshire remains one of the lowest funders of public higher education in the country, according to 2024 data from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEOA).
Current and potential Granite State residents with children may struggle to join, or fully engage in, the labor force.
New U.S. Census Bureau data from the 2023 American Community Survey revealed that New Hampshire’s renters continue to be cost-burdened by housing expenses
For many Granite State families, child care is inaccessible and unaffordable. According to Child Care Aware of America, center-based care for two children under 5 years old averaged nearly $32,000 annually in New Hampshire during 2023, a 12.5% increase from 2022.
Limited access to affordable child care creates significant challenges for New Hampshire’s families, economy, and state efforts to support a robust workforce. While Granite State families requiring child care experienced challenges with availability, affordability and quality of care before 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated these challenges and highlighted the severity of barriers to child care.
Between November 2022 and October 2023, an average of 16,000 Granite Staters per month were not working because they were caring for children who were not in school or day care. The high price of child care may be a key factor keeping many NH residents out of the workforce.
Three of the five occupations with the largest projected 10-year growth in New Hampshire are in fields that typically require college degrees, including registered nurses.
New Hampshire’s workforce constraint has become more severe since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than three job openings for every unemployed worker in June 2023 compared to less than two openings per resident seeking work just before the pandemic.
While state, federal initiatives are helping to address costs, the immediate need for housing is acute
As a crippling financial crisis uncovered in recent weeks in Claremont makes headlines, Pittsfield, too, is reckoning with a budget shortfall of more than a million dollars as a new school year gets underway. Pittsfield’s deficit, discovered early this year, is roughly $1.8…
Portsmouth-based GBCC offers one of the few associate degree programs in Surgical Technology in the region and the only one in New Hampshire that is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Programs (CAAHEP).
Superior Court Judge David Ruoff has once again ruled that the state has shirked its duty to fund an adequate education and this time further held that local school property taxes, which vary in rate from one municipality to another, are themselves unconstitutional.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, July 14, allowed the Trump administration, for now, to proceed with mass layoffs and a plan to dramatically downsize the Education Department ordered earlier this year. The decision from the nation’s highest court marks…
Keene State College has started to gut its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to comply with new state law. It’s an all-too familiar tune for many higher education institutions. Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has gone on…
The partnership, which started many years ago as a cross-town agreement between the college and John Stark, has steadily grown. Graduates of Hopkinton, Kearsarge Regional and Hillsboro-Deering, among several other high schools in the state, were already eligible.
New Hampshire remains one of the lowest funders of public higher education in the country, according to 2024 data from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEOA).
The New Hampshire Supreme Court once again says the state has failed to fulfill its constitutional duty to fund an adequate education as ordered by the justices in the foundational Claremont litigation nearly three decades ago.
New Hampshire continues to lead the nation in overall child well-being, securing the top position for the third consecutive year.
