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Vulnerable Families

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...

Recent Stories

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    A researcher at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the Âé¶¹app recently released a study that suggests the state serves even less than 30 percent of...
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    In recent years the federal government has told states like New Hampshire that they can’t impose work requirements for Medicaid recipients. But with Republicans in charge in...
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    A researcher at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the Âé¶¹app recently released a study that found only 837 funded slots for Early Head Start in Maine, but...
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    - UNH Research Finds Most Poor Maine Children Don’t Have Access to Early Education
    Maine has just 837 funded Early Head Start (EHS) slots but more than 8,000 poor children age 0-2 who would benefit from the early intervention, according to new research released... Read More
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    - UNH Research Finds Income Matters When It Comes to Access to After-School Activity
    Higher-income youth are twice as likely to be employed and one-and-a-half times as likely to participate in extracurricular activities as their lower-income counterparts,... Read More
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    - UNH Research Finds Elderly Tax Breaks Have Little Impact on Moves
    Existing state income tax breaks for the elderly result in non-trivial reductions in state revenue and offer little relief to the most vulnerable elderly, according to new... Read More
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    Chilc care costs are often the tipping point in pushing low-income famililes into poverty, new research from the Âé¶¹app's Carsey School of Public Policy...
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    - UNH Research Finds Child Care Expenses Push Low-Income Families into Poverty
    One-third of poor families who pay for child care – 207,000 nationally -- are pushed into poverty as a result of their child care expenses, according to new research released by... Read More
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    Beth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families at the Carsey School of Public Policy, discusses how nearly one-third (30.4 percent) of families with young children...
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    - UNH Research Finds More Than 95 Percent of U.S. Children Have Health Insurance
    More than 95 percent of all U.S. children were covered by some form of health insurance in 2015, the most since data started being collected in 2008, according to new research out... Read More