On the last Friday of each month, the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute’s research team shares a curated list of books, research papers, podcasts, and more that are helping to shape our understanding of the economic wellbeing of the Granite State and beyond.

Here are our picks for April 2025:

📄 Uninsurance and Medicaid Eligibility among Young Adults in 2025 – Urban Institute

“Young adults [ages 18 to 24] will be more likely to be uninsured than any other age group in 2025: 11.3 percent will be uninsured, compared with 4.2 percent of children and 9.6 percent of adults ages 25 to 64.”

📄 The Path to Public Safety Requires Economic Opportunity: Trends and Solutions in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Communities – The Brookings Institution

“The majority of Americans live in suburbs and rural areas, but just one-third of these communities benefit from sufficient local crime data reporting, limiting the ability to craft tailored public safety solutions for them.”

📄 Fiscal 50: Tax Revenue Volatility – The Pew Charitable Trust

 “Implementation of the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) contributed to a historic increase in the underlying volatility of many state tax streams beginning in late 2017, when collections experienced their largest annual swing since the Great Recession of 2007-09 as states and taxpayers began adjusting to their new liabilities.”

📄 How Big Is the Nonprofit Sector? – Richmond Fed

“…[Industries with large nonprofit presence] employed 13.6 million people in January 2025, accounting for 8.6 percent of total nonfarm payroll employment.”

📄 Do Low Survey Response Rates Threaten Data Dependence? – Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 

“…a small sample size may be less representative [of a target population] and therefore give an inaccurate picture of the economic environment.”

💡 Have you read something that should be on our radar? Share it with us at info@nhfpi.org—we’d love to hear from you!