The Affordable Care Act is the most important piece of employee benefits legislation since the passage of ERISA in 1974. And in the past few months, Bernstein Shur's ACA team has conducted focus groups with business and nonprofit community leaders…
I was raised in a union household -- my father was an International Union of Electrical Workers steward. He said that unions formed to give workers bargaining power that they as individuals did not have. As a union employee myself,…
In her budget address before the Legislature, Gov. Maggie Hassan pledged to repeal the nascent Opportunity Scholarship Act, which grants tax credits to businesses that help low- and middle-income students afford independent and home schooling.If the governor's goal is saving…
Although New Hampshire has usually been a leader in emerging from past recessions, this time around the rates of both job growth and the recovery of jobs lost are moving at a much slower pace than in the past. In…
To the editor:There's a budget proposal on the table - the "chained" consumer price index - that would cut over $623 million from Granite Staters' Social Security and veterans' COLA over the next 10 years.The average Social Security retirement benefit…
A concealed weapon in the hands of a good person is not the slightest danger to innocent people...
The bill addresses the current and future need for STEM employees
New Hampshire should hold off on energy projects until it has a comprehensive policy
Great article by Bob Sanders on the worker’s comp situation in New Hampshire, but...
Live Free or Die Alliance Facebook respondents weigh in
Any approach to deficit reduction that fails to distinguish between wasteful spending and critical investments would undermine our economy and security
There are a couple of points on the wind farm debate that the general public just isn't hearing enough of.
It is a monumental undertaking that requires both parties to work together to remedy a broken system
Of the total $1.15 billion spent on dealing with excessive consumption in N.H., $824 million is borne by the private sector
The subject provokes so much passion that historical perspective is lost
Even with our nation $16.4 trillion in debt, some in Washington still believe that a crisis isn’t something that should go to waste
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