Carsey School of Public Policy
In an Associated Press article about immigrants keeping the largest urban counties in the U. S. growing in 2024,Ìıthe Carsey School's Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson commentedÌı“A substantial excess of births over deaths has long been the primary driver of U.S. population growth, but as this...
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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...
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05/20/25
Weekend of Commencement Festivities Celebrates 2025 Graduates
The Âé¶¹app celebrated commencement weekend with three ceremonies on the Durham campus and one at the UNH Franklin Pierce School... -
04/03/25
Cracking the Childcare Crisis
The New Hampshire Early Care and Education Research Consortium at UNH aims to inform policy and action toward a more robust early childhood education...
Recent Stories
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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¶¹app 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¶¹app 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
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05/09/17 - UNH Research Finds Elderly Tax Breaks Have Little Impact on MovesExisting 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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05/08/17 -“Think of the recession as freezing people in place -- now that is thawing,†said Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer and public policy professor at the University of New...