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Legislature Passes Bills to Fund Legal Settlements, Retirement System, and Transportation While Altering Housing and Child Care Laws

New Hampshire’s 2024 legislative session resulted in key policy changes and investments proposed by the State Legislature. Although several have already been signed, many of these bills still await consideration by the Governor. While 2024 was not a State Budget year for the Legislature, available surplus funds, flexible American Rescue Plan Act dollars and other ...

Explainer: A Healthy Child Care Industry Helps All Granite Staters

This blog is a companion piece to the video A Healthy Child Care Industry Helps All Granite Staters, and includes links, references, and explanations of specific facts and figures in the video. To learn more about our Child Care work, please visit the Education section for more information.

May State Revenues Show Continued Decline in Key Tax Revenue Sources

New Hampshire State revenues collected in May matched the amount State Budget writers planned to collect, but met that target in a manner suggesting potential challenges for future revenues. Key sources of revenue growth in recent years, specifically the State’s business taxes and the Real Estate Transfer Tax, have been slipping behind expectations, and the ...

State Property Tax Relief Available for Homeowners, Applications Open Until June 30

New Hampshire’s Low and Moderate Income Homeowners Property Tax Relief Program provides tax refunds for individual homeowners who earn less than $37,000 annually or a married couple or head of household who earns less than $47,000. These thresholds were raised in 2021 after two decades without adjustments since the program’s inception in 2001. Based on ...