The State Ledger

New Hampshire policy, followed through to the outcome.

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Explainer · New Hampshire

EFA Families Aren't the Problem. The Policy Is.

Two things can happen when the state subsidises something: it causes a choice that would not otherwise have happened, or it pays for one that was happening anyway. New Hampshire does not publish the data to tell them apart.

Explainer · New Hampshire

When the State Stops Paying, Somebody Else Starts

A cost the state stops carrying does not stop existing. What the record supports is a fiscal-capacity argument, not a one-to-one claim that every dollar of forgone state revenue became a dollar of property tax.

Explainer · New Hampshire

Your House Got Richer. Did You?

Two towns can need the same money per student and set very different tax rates, because the property standing behind each student is different.

Scorecard · Sullivan County

Margaret Drye, What's the Taxpayer ROI?

A comparison of two decisions by the representative for Sullivan County District 7: a bill that would have moved $28 million of pension cost off local property taxes, and an expansion of state education spending to $51.6 million.

Proposal · New Hampshire

New Hampshire Starter Villages

A development model for privately owned cottage communities of 15 to 30 small homes on shared land and shared infrastructure, with a worked cost breakdown.

Commentary · New Hampshire

The Great Delay and Dump

An editorial graphic about deferred cost — the practice of recording a saving now by postponing an obligation that grows while it waits.

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