Issues
Issues
What The State Ledger has examined, by subject. An analysis appears under every issue it touches.
Education Funding
How New Hampshire pays for public education: the state adequacy grant, the statewide education property tax, and the local share that covers the rest.
6 analysesGovernment Spending
What the state buys, what it declines to buy, and where a cost goes when the state stops paying it.
6 analysesProperty Taxes
New Hampshire funds most local government and public education through the property tax, which makes the tax base of a town, not only its spending, a determinant of what a household pays.
6 analysesAccountability
Whether a programme or an official can be evaluated against a measurable result rather than a stated intention.
4 analysesEducation Freedom Accounts
The state programme that places public education funds in family-controlled accounts for approved educational expenses.
3 analysesAffordability
Whether households can meet the costs they actually face. Not one issue: housing, taxes, energy, healthcare and childcare have different causes and different levels of government responsible for them.
2 analysesPensions
The New Hampshire Retirement System and the division of its employer contributions between the state and its municipalities.
2 analysesHousing
Supply, cost and land-use rules, and the policy proposals that address them.
1 analysis