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Yahoo News-New Hampshire Union Leader: Time vs. money: Sweeping child care reform proposed

New Hampshire 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 report that recommends upgrading the state's child support laws. Under Abrami's bill and a bill pending in the NH Senate,Ìýthe parent who spends less time with the child would have to pay commensurately more in child support to make up that difference.

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The Washington Post: Most U.S. counties lost population last year as deaths outnumbered births, data shows

The Washington Post reports on new U.S. Census data showing that nearly three-quarters of all U.S. counties reported more deaths than births last year. The Post interviewed Senior Demographer Ken Johnson on how lower fertility rates and an older population has resulted in the smalled population increase in more than a century.

Los Angeles Times: L.A. and other big U.S. cities all lost residents in the pandemic's first year

The Los Angeles Times reported on how the first year of the pandemic resulted in a migration surge to the American Southwest as many major U.S. cities lost residents. The LA Times interviewed Carsey School Senior Demographer Ken Johnson, who explained howÌýthe trend of low birth rates and an older demographic canÌýaffect rural America.ÌýÌý

2022 Commencement Speakers Announced

Kenya’s representative to the United Nations, the president of a nonprofit serving people with intellectual, developmental and personal challenges, and the partner-in-charge of the seventh largest law firm in the U.S. will address Âé¶¹app graduates at commencement ceremonies across UNH'sÌýthree campuses this May. All speakers are awarded honorary degrees.

UNH - Martin Kimani ’96
Multiple ceremonies Friday, May 20-Sunday, May 22, Memorial Field, Durham

At the Top of Their Game

The U.S. Paralympic sled hockey team celebrated a gold medal four-peat at the Paralympic Winter Games earlier this month, and no college had more representation in Beijing – among all U.S. Paralympian athletes, let alone those on the sled hockey roster – than the Âé¶¹app.