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EDUCATION
The Education Tax Credit Program: Fact vs. Fiction
New Hampshire’s Education Tax Credit Program is under fire…
HEALTH CARE
Arkansas’ Medicaid Expansion work woes shouldn’t kill NH’s experiment before it starts
Just as New Hampshire begins monitoring its Medicaid work requirements…
ENERGY
Our legislators must be scientific super geniuses
For years, legislators have been on a relentless quest to raise…
STATE BUDGET
Five secrets of the Legislature’s 2020-21 state budget
State budgets are like the Grinch’s Santa sack. They’re huge,…
TRANSPORTATION
A skeptic’s guide to commuter rail boosterism
SUMMARY: To promote taxpayer funding of a quarter-billion dollar…
TAXATION
Expanding the tobacco tax to non-tobacco products is bad policy
SUMMARY: Both the Democratic Legislature and Republican Gov.…
REGULATION
A $15 minimum wage would put the population of N.H. out of work
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour would put approximately…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Leaping on the income tax grenade
In an extraordinary show of party discipline, Senate Majority…
BETTER GOVERNMENT
January 2017 By Michael Sununu Among the many drivers of unsound public policy in this day and age, perhaps the most odious is the alarmism over changes in climate that are supposedly driven by human activity. Time and again, we have seen costly, unjustified, and economically destructive public policy implemented in the name of climate […]
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State employees to save $1 million a year after Janus ruling
BETTER GOVERNMENT, BLOG, FEATUREDThe top two contributors to the re-election campaign of U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., in this quarter are public-sector labor unions: the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). Each union has given Rep. Kuster $5,000 this quarter (not 5,000 quarters). And until June 27, each […]