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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...

Recent Stories

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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    “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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    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...