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EDUCATION
State education spending sees significant increase in compromise budget
Through a combination of one-time expenditures and increases…
HEALTH CARE
How N.H. could save millions in drug costs with an online auction
On Thursday, a coalition worthy of a wacky ensemble buddy comedy…
ENERGY
50 years after start of anti-Seabrook protests, a turn toward nuclear power
If San Francisco tech bro hipsters invented a carbon-free way…
STATE BUDGET
Stabilizing business tax rates at last (for two years, anyway)
Throughout 2019’s prolonged budget debate, two competing claims…
TRANSPORTATION
A skeptic’s guide to commuter rail boosterism
SUMMARY: To promote taxpayer funding of a quarter-billion dollar…
TAXATION
The 2019 business rate cuts made N.H. more economically competitive
The business tax cuts that took effect this past January made…
REGULATION
Study: California paid leave law reduced new mothers’ income & employment, reinforced traditional gender roles
A big argument for mandatory paid family leave is that it would…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Expanding the tobacco tax to non-tobacco products is bad policy
SUMMARY: Both the Democratic Legislature and Republican Gov.…
BETTER GOVERNMENT
The 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 […]
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Janus ruling reversed years-long growth in state employee union membership
BETTER GOVERNMENT, FEATUREDLast 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 […]