Editor’s note: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, educational entrepreneurship has boomed nationwide. New Hampshire has experienced significant growth in the number of entrepreneurs and innovators willing to take on the daunting challenge of building a new educational ecosystem. This year, we’ll be highlighting some of the people and organizations that have begun expanding the education marketplace […]
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Jason Sorens at the American Institute for Economic Research has posted a provocative essay connecting young people’s affinity for heavy-handed government economic intervention to overly restrictive land use regulations. Restrictive land use regulations play a significant role in driving housing costs higher. That’s very well documented. Government zoning regulations that limit homebuilding are a big […]
Nationwide, rents have trended downward in the past year. But that relief has missed New Hampshire. Here, rents rose in the past year at double the rate of the year before, according to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority’s (NHHFA) latest report, further illustrating how desperately underserved New Hampshire’s rental market is. “The rental market […]
https://jbartlett.org/wp-content/uploads/shutterstock_1609787809-scaled.jpg17082560Andrew Clinehttps://jbartlett.org/wp-content/uploads/logo_white_v1_360x70.pngAndrew Cline2023-07-28 13:24:092023-07-28 13:28:42As rents fall nationwide, they rise in New Hampshire, where construction lags
Lost amid all the political and economic news this month was an important bit of data that’s particularly noteworthy as the 2024 governor’s race gets under way. (Yes, already.) The state’s fiscal year ended in June. When it did, the state posted a General and Education Trust Fund surplus of $538.9 million. When revenues exceed […]
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School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in education entrepreneurship across the United States. Large declines in student performance (see here and here) both during and following the pandemic, along with increasingly bitter disputes over school content and policies, are sending still more parents in search of alternatives. In New Hampshire, public […]
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On July 4th, Americans celebrate not just the formation of our nation, but the inspiring ideals of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. It’s currently fashionable to question whether Americans live up to those ideals, or ever have. But the predominant voices of doubt ask the wrong question. The foundational question is not […]
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Two weeks after New Hampshire posted a record-low unemployment rate of 1.9%, Gov. Chris Sununu signed two bills to make it easier for licensed professionals from other states to work here. New Hampshire requires state-issued licenses for dozens of occupations, from barbers and cosmetologists to doctors, landscape architects, and even foresters. For decades, anyone who […]
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It just got a lot easier to grow a home-based food operation in New Hampshire. It’s long been legal to make what the state defines as non-dangerous food products in your kitchen and sell them to the public, under certain conditions. One of those conditions has been a cap on total sales revenue. If you […]
Legislators have approved two relatively small but significant improvements to New Hampshire’s existing school choice options. The 2024–25 state budget increases per-pupil funding for public charter schools, and a separate bill expands eligibility for the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program. Both changes will offer Granite State students more educational options starting this fall. Charter schools […]
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How would you feel about being taxed to support a failing business in a city on the other side of the state? If you’d be fine with that, well, good news! Under the guise of promoting “renewable energy,” many Granite Staters are subsidizing a single business in Berlin. That subsidy could come to an end […]
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Education entrepreneur spotlight: Nate Fellman and The Harkness House (part I)
EDUCATION, FEATUREDEditor’s note: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, educational entrepreneurship has boomed nationwide. New Hampshire has experienced significant growth in the number of entrepreneurs and innovators willing to take on the daunting challenge of building a new educational ecosystem. This year, we’ll be highlighting some of the people and organizations that have begun expanding the education marketplace […]
How housing regulations push youth to socialism
BLOG, HOUSING, REGULATIONJason Sorens at the American Institute for Economic Research has posted a provocative essay connecting young people’s affinity for heavy-handed government economic intervention to overly restrictive land use regulations. Restrictive land use regulations play a significant role in driving housing costs higher. That’s very well documented. Government zoning regulations that limit homebuilding are a big […]
As rents fall nationwide, they rise in New Hampshire, where construction lags
FEATURED, LOCAL GOVERNMENTNationwide, rents have trended downward in the past year. But that relief has missed New Hampshire. Here, rents rose in the past year at double the rate of the year before, according to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority’s (NHHFA) latest report, further illustrating how desperately underserved New Hampshire’s rental market is. “The rental market […]
Revenues end year half-billion over budget as unemployment hits record low
BLOG, BUDGET, ECONOMY, FEATUREDLost amid all the political and economic news this month was an important bit of data that’s particularly noteworthy as the 2024 governor’s race gets under way. (Yes, already.) The state’s fiscal year ended in June. When it did, the state posted a General and Education Trust Fund surplus of $538.9 million. When revenues exceed […]
From microschools to co-ops, entrepreneurs are creating new educational options in New Hampshire
EDUCATION, FEATUREDSchool closures during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in education entrepreneurship across the United States. Large declines in student performance (see here and here) both during and following the pandemic, along with increasingly bitter disputes over school content and policies, are sending still more parents in search of alternatives. In New Hampshire, public […]
Would the Founders consider us free?
BETTER GOVERNMENT, FEATUREDOn July 4th, Americans celebrate not just the formation of our nation, but the inspiring ideals of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. It’s currently fashionable to question whether Americans live up to those ideals, or ever have. But the predominant voices of doubt ask the wrong question. The foundational question is not […]
N.H. becomes first New England state to grant universal license recognition
FEATURED, REGULATIONTwo weeks after New Hampshire posted a record-low unemployment rate of 1.9%, Gov. Chris Sununu signed two bills to make it easier for licensed professionals from other states to work here. New Hampshire requires state-issued licenses for dozens of occupations, from barbers and cosmetologists to doctors, landscape architects, and even foresters. For decades, anyone who […]
Legislators remove sales cap for home-based food operations
BLOG, REGULATIONIt just got a lot easier to grow a home-based food operation in New Hampshire. It’s long been legal to make what the state defines as non-dangerous food products in your kitchen and sell them to the public, under certain conditions. One of those conditions has been a cap on total sales revenue. If you […]
Educational choice makes small but important gains in 2023
BLOG, EDUCATIONLegislators have approved two relatively small but significant improvements to New Hampshire’s existing school choice options. The 2024–25 state budget increases per-pupil funding for public charter schools, and a separate bill expands eligibility for the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program. Both changes will offer Granite State students more educational options starting this fall. Charter schools […]
Would you spend $150 million to subsidize a Dunkin’ franchise? How about an unprofitable power plant?
ENERGYHow would you feel about being taxed to support a failing business in a city on the other side of the state? If you’d be fine with that, well, good news! Under the guise of promoting “renewable energy,” many Granite Staters are subsidizing a single business in Berlin. That subsidy could come to an end […]