A bill that takes the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services off the hook for providing funding to a childcare workforce grant became law this week.  The state’s budget bill, signed last June, included funding toward early education-related programming. The appropriation of $15 million over two years is for a childcare workforce grant […]

It’s been a reality evident to homeowners for decades: New Hampshire public services are overwhelmingly driven by property taxes. Now, a new analysis by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute has quantified that dependency.  In 2022, New Hampshire cities and towns relied on property taxes for 61% of their total revenues, the highest proportion of […]

The House Committee on Science, Technology, and Energy voted on Monday to recommend a bill that would make the depletion of New Hampshire’s Renewable Energy Fund official for the second time in a year. That’s despite some uncertainty over the constitutionality of the original move to gut the fund and other disagreements on the committee, […]