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EDUCATION
Huge Florida study finds school choice improves performance of public school students
The expansion of Florida’s school choice scholarship program…
HEALTH CARE
A disease outbreak is a bad time to ban disposable plastics and paper
Forcing people to carry reusable food and beverage containers…
ENERGY
Study estimates N.H. cost of Green New Deal at more than $74,000 per household in first year
Two weeks after a supporter of the Green New Deal won the New…
STATE BUDGET
Will legislators add new unfunded liabilities to State Retirement System?
On public policy, New Hampshire should always beat Vermont, as…
TRANSPORTATION
A skeptic’s guide to commuter rail boosterism
SUMMARY: To promote taxpayer funding of a quarter-billion dollar…
TAXATION
Addicted to tax revenue: The potentially dangerous rush to raise the vaping tax
The state’s first vaping tax took effect on January 1, just…
REGULATION
Government-inflated rents hurt even more during periods of economic decline
On April 1, rents were due for the first time since Gov. Chris…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Tax incentive scams exposed in N.J., Maryland
Economic development tax incentives continue to shrivel under…
BETTER GOVERNMENT
Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFCSME triggered a 5.9% reduction in New Hampshire state employee union membership, state payroll data obtained by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy show. The sudden drop reversed a years-long trend of rising union enrollment in state government. Prior to the Janus decision, New Hampshire […]
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Will legislators add new unfunded liabilities to State Retirement System?
BETTER GOVERNMENT, BUDGET, FEATUREDOn public policy, New Hampshire should always beat Vermont, as a matter of principle. That goes double for the handling of money. The state that sends a self-proclaimed “socialist” to the U.S. Senate should never get to say it’s more responsible with a dollar. New Hampshire has bragging rights here. The Granite State is 12th […]