Entries by Joshua Elliott-Traficante

HHS Spending, Uncompensated Care, and the Rainy Day Fund

The current FY14-15 budget spends $30.5 million more on Health and Human Services than the House Budget proposed, when Uncompensated Care is removed. Revenue projections for the Medicaid Enhancement Tax (MET), which funds Uncompensated Care, were revised downwards in the Enacted Budget on the advice of HHS. Taking into account all back of the budget reductions, the Enacted Budget spends nearly $23.5 million more over the biennium than the House Budget in General Funds.

May 29, 2014 by

Thank you!

Thank you for supporting the Bartlett Center! We forward to seeing you on June 17th at the Grappone Center in Concord. Please use the form below to submit guest names. If you have any questions, or need to submit guest names at a later date, please email Josh at [email protected] [contact-form][contact-field label=’Email’ type=’email’ required=’1’/][contact-field label=’Guest […]

May 14, 2014 by

Live Free and Learn: A Case Study of NH’s Scholarship Tax Credit Program

The survey found that 97 percent of parents of scholarship recipients are satisfied with their chosen private or home schools, 68 percent noticed measurable academic improvement since receiving the scholarship, and 74 percent of private school parents reported that they would have been unable to afford tuition without the scholarship. These findings are consistent with previous research and demonstrate once again the promise of educational choice programs.

April 22, 2014 by

New Hampshire Ripe for Raising the Age

Most of us would not want to be judged for the rest of our lives based on what we did when we were 17 years-old. Unfortunately, this is the reality for too many youngsters in New Hampshire since the state lowered the maximum age of juvenile court jurisdiction from 18 to 17 in 1996.

April 14, 2014 by

Quick Takes on the February Jobs Report:

So, what does this all mean? Oddly enough, if a full-fledged recovery were underway, the unemployment rate would actually start to increase. Given the anemic job growth since the recession officially ‘ended’, many job seekers gave up looking for work entirely and dropped out of the labor force. The current method of calculating the unemployment does not count those people as unemployed, leaving roughly 1,500,000 million people out of the equation.

March 7, 2014 /3 Comments/by

The Wrong Policy for NH at the Wrong Time

Politics and governing aren’t the same thing, but they are inevitably intertwined. As much as we would like otherwise, political considerations often drive policy decisions. Sometimes the repercussions are small. In the pending decision over Medicaid expansion, however, the stakes are huge and it would be a serious mistake for Republicans in the state Senate to make this a political decision.

March 3, 2014 /3 Comments/by