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ISSUES
EDUCATION
For Education Freedom Accounts, capping income at 400% of poverty would exclude these moderate-income families
As legislators consider making more Granite State families eligible…
HEALTH CARE
Medicaid can’t continue expanding forever
As legislators consider more proposals to expand Medicaid eligibility…
ENERGY
Lawmakers consider a state subsidy for EVs as prices approach parity with conventional cars
Enticing people to buy electric vehicles does not fit comfortably…
STATE BUDGET
Housing affordability is dinging the state budget
The Josiah Bartlett Center has warned for the last few years…
TRANSPORTATION
As Manchester bus ridership collapsed in the last decade, city spending on bus service soared
In the last decade, ridership on Manchester Transit Authority…
TAXATION
Will New Hampshire’s income tax finally die this year?
New Hampshire is less than a year away from eliminating its income…
REGULATION
How the big “HOMEnibus” housing bill would do more harm than good
By Jason Sorens
The New Hampshire House of Representatives…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Bans and high taxes fuel black markets for tobacco & vape products
As the Biden administration gets closer to finalizing its proposed…
BETTER GOVERNMENT
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Legislators distributing random numbers is no basis for sound public policy
BETTER GOVERNMENT, FEATURED“This is not a world to live at random in as you do.… Everything in this world is matter of calculation.” — Thomas Jefferson, Oct. 12, 1786 Random chance is a constant feature of life on Earth, and for centuries it was a feature of human government. Kings and councils ruled with “arbitrary power,” as […]