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Carsey School of Public Policy
UNH Research Shows Number of Childless Women in the U.S. Continues to Rise
Research from the Â鶹app 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
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09/15/25Building 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...
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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 -
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...
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05/02/17 -Chilc care costs are often the tipping point in pushing low-income famililes into poverty, new research from the Â鶹app's Carsey School of Public Policy...
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05/02/17 - UNH Research Finds Child Care Expenses Push Low-Income Families into PovertyOne-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 -
05/01/17 - Four UNH Students to Support Families and Communities in New Hampshire through Gov. John G. Winant FellowshipsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2017 Carsey School of Public Policy (603) 862-2821 carsey.communications@unh.edu Four UNH Students to Support Families and Communities in New... Read More -
04/27/17 -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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04/25/17 - UNH Research Finds More Than 95 Percent of U.S. Children Have Health InsuranceMore 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 -
04/20/17 -The Department of Health and Human ServicesĚýsaysĚýchild care should cost 7 percent of a family’s income at most — but 42 percent of families who buy care for young children spend...
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04/19/17 -A recent program sponsored by UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy examined the history and impact of land-grant universities, and was well-timed for UNH’s College of Life...
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04/18/17 - UNH Finds Child Poverty Continues to Decline but Racial-Ethnic Disparities PersistĚýBetween 2014 and 2015 child poverty fell for all race-ethnicities except Asians, but patterns in levels and characteristics of child poverty persist, according to researchers at... Read More