Carsey School of Public Policy
UNH Research Shows Number of Childless Women in the U.S. Continues to Rise
Research from the Âé¶ąapp reports that in 2024 there were 5.7 million more childless women of prime child-bearing age than expected given prior patterns — a significant jump from 2.1 million in 2016 and 4.7 million in 2022. This shift in fertility patterns has contributed to 11.... Read More-
09/15/25
Building a Better Childcare System in New Hampshire
A Carsey School expert breaks down the complicated landscape of childcare in New Hampshire. -
05/22/25In an Associated Press article about immigrants keeping the largest urban counties in the U. S. growing in 2024,Ěýthe Carsey School's Senior...
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05/22/25CBS News’ 60 Minutes Overtime interviewed the Carsey School’s Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson to find out what’s happening with American women...
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05/21/25In this Newsweek article, U.S. News Reporter Jordan King interviews experts to examine the reason Americans are moving to low-tax states. Kenneth...
Recent Stories
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06/29/17 -Research wasĚýreleased this weekĚýby the Carsey School of Public Policy at the Âé¶ąapp and was conducted by Dante Scala — associate professor of political...
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06/27/17 - UNH Research Finds Clinton’s Defeat Result of Fewer Votes in Less Populated Areas of U.S.While Hillary Clinton nearly matched Barack Obama’s 2012 performance in most urban areas, her failure to match recent Democratic presidential nominees in less populated areas... Read More
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06/20/17 - CoRE Strength“Universities have departments but the world has problems,” goes the old adage. UNH’s new annual Collaborative Research Excellence (CoRE) initiative, supported by the Office of... Read More
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06/17/17 -A researcher at the Carsey School of Public Policy at the Âé¶ąapp recently released a study that found only 837 funded slots for Early Head Start in Maine, but...
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06/15/17 -Ken Johnson, a Âé¶ąapp demographer, told me, "It's a theme that runs through a lot of the historical research on rural America. Rural communities lose the...
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06/13/17 - UNH Research Finds Majority of Americans Trust NASA on Climate ChangeSeventy-three percent of Americans trust science agencies like NASA for information about climate change, according to new research released by the Carsey School of Public Policy... Read More
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05/23/17 - UNH Research Finds Most Poor Maine Children Don’t Have Access to Early EducationMaine 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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05/17/17 -In 2007, Michael O’Gorman read a story in a newspaper that grabbed his attention and resonated, because his son, Gregory, was serving in the military in Kuwait at the time. “There...
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05/17/17 -A conference involving law enforcement officials, community members and the Seacoast chapter of the NAACP focused on racial issues Wednesday in the wake of several recent racially...
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05/16/17 - UNH Research Finds Income Matters When It Comes to Access to After-School ActivityHigher-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