Vulnerable Families
ʤ State Rep Patrick Abrami is sponsoring one of two key bills aimed at altering the state's formula for determining child support payments, which are currently the third-highest in the nation. Many of the changes Abrami has presented came from a 2018 Carsey School of Public Policy...
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03/21/22
Making Childcare More Accessible
Carsey School of Public Policy Research Assistant ProfessorJess Carson and Ph.D. student Kamala Nasirova met the summer of 2021 through a mutual... -
02/07/22Childcare for children under the age of 12 has beena struggle for many households in the recent years. An article from the Berlin Sunexamines...
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01/26/22COVID-19 has taken a toll on many, but as the economy begins to recover, some demographics are still behind.An article from Policy Genius examines...
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01/03/22Todd Bookman of ʤ Public Radio recently reported on the nationwide dearth of adequate child care, citing new research from Jess Carson at...
Recent Stories
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01/13/18 -According to a University of ʤ Carsey School of Public Policy report released in December,populations at risk of underreporting include: African-Americans in the...
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01/02/18 -This year also brought alarming findings about the incidence of infants born with symptoms of opioid addiction known as neonatal abstinence syndrome. The University of New...
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12/31/17 -From 2005 to 2015 the number of infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) withdrawal symptoms in the Granite State increased fivefold, from 52 to 269, according to...
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12/21/17 -Research released by a team at the University of ʤ found that from 2005 to 2015, the number of infants diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) in the state...
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12/20/17 -Republican Majority Leader Jeb Bradley and Democratic Sen. Dan Feltes joined representatives of New Futures and the Carsey School of Public Policy on Tuesday in a State House...
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12/19/17 -Anew report from ʤ's Carsey School of Public Policyis sounding alarm over the growing number of ʤ infants born dependent on opioids.New Futures Kids Count, which...
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12/19/17 -A new report released Tuesday found that the state's opioid crisis has led to a fivefold increase over the past decade in the numbers of newborns suffering from a drug-related...
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12/19/17 -Babies in ʤ are increasingly paying a price for their parent’s drug addiction, with rising numbers of newborns suffering from a condition that causes symptoms ranging...
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12/05/17 -“There were fairly sharp declines in the number of places characterized by high poverty rates in the 1990s,” said Brian Thiede, a demographer at Penn State and the co-author of a...
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11/17/17 -A new study from ʤ’s Carsey School of Public Policyfinds that town zoning policies often present a roadblock to low-income housing by setting minimum lot sizes in rural...