ISSUES
EDUCATION
The Education Tax Credit: How does it work?
Serious misunderstandings about the state’s Education Tax Credit…
HEALTH CARE
Expanded Medicaid’s permanence
The case advocates make for reauthorizing expanded Medicaid is…
ENERGY
Winter is coming (and it’s going to be expensive)
The election is 25 days away and the nation’s greatest political…
STATE BUDGET
DCYF funding and state business tax cuts
Executive summary: Funding for the state’s Division of Children,…
TRANSPORTATION
Attack of the Turnspike
It’s been a decade since New Hampshire increased turnpike tolls…
TAXATION
NH House has passed $56.5 million in new spending, $31 million in new taxes per week in 2019 (so far!)
In the first 10 weeks of the 2019 legislative session, the New…
REGULATION
Minimum wage increases hurt the lowest-skilled workers
Bartlett Brief:
Minimum wage increases hurt the lowest-skilled…
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Strong economy delivers gifts for everyone
Merry Christmas, New Hampshire.
The strong economy has brought…
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 […]
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 […]