New Hampshire Business Review - April 11, 2025

April 10, 2025

Mike Cote

State budget: Where’s the money going, and coming from?

Paul Briand,

NHFPI assesses House Finance Committee budget against governor’s proposal

NH manufacturing resource center faces shutdown

Mike Cote,

While President Trump says the tariffs fueling a global trade war will jumpstart U.S. manufacturing, he is pulling funding from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, the federal centers dedicated to supporting its growth. The president and director of the New Hampshire MEP expects it to close if the cuts continue.

Trumping trade

Paul Briand,

President Donald Trump's tariffs gambit challenges a global economy with its roots in New Hampshire. The Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944, involving 44 nations post World War II, was designed to create economic stability after World War II and promote international trade.

Study: NH business tax cuts led to ‘forgone revenue’

Paul Briand,

New Hampshire's Business Profits Tax and the Business Enterprise Tax can represent up to 40% of the state’s revenue. A new report argues that the notion of reducing these taxes to help kick start business activity hurts the state in the long run.

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Study: NH business tax cuts led to ‘forgone revenue’

Paul Briand,

Pelham company develops game-changing heart pump

Paul Briand,

VentriFlo offers the world’s first pump to deliver a life-like pulse for use during cardiac-related surgery

More news from NHBR:

Expanding access to mental health care in New Hampshire

Demand for behavioral health care services continues to rise across New Hampshire and the nation, impacting families, employers, health care providers, and communities alike.

Are home prices closing in on a $600,000 median?

The median priced single-family home in the Granite State reached another all-time high at $579,900, according to data from the New Hampshire Association of Realtors. That breaks the previous high mark of $569,000 in June of last year.

Promoting NH’s outdoor economy will take better coordination, report says

New Hampshire’s outdoor economy is active and evolving, but the systems that support it have not kept pace, according to a new report by the Granite Outdoor Alliance. “Grounded Growth” was culled from three roundtables hosted by industry businesses around the state where 62 stakeholders from business, manufacturing, conservation, workforce and the public sector discussed challenges and opportunities shaping New Hampshire’s outdoor economy.