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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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    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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    - Four UNH Students to Support Families and Communities in New Hampshire through Gov. John G. Winant Fellowships
    FOR 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
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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
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    The Department of Health and Human ServicesÌısaysÌıchild 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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    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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    - UNH Finds Child Poverty Continues to Decline but Racial-Ethnic Disparities Persist
    ÌıBetween 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
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    Heather Boushey, executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, is the author of “Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict.†In the...
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    For the past 40 or 50 years, it’s been normal for rural counties adjacent to metro areas to grow more quickly than counties located farther from cities, said Kenneth M. Johnson,...