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 February 2026:
📝 Covering the Care: Medical Debt: A Uniquely American Issue – UNH Institute for Health Policy and Practice
“Fifteen states have enacted laws to restrict or ban medical debt from credit reports. At least twelve states and DC have passed laws restricting when hospitals and collection agencies can sue patients based on medical debt. One state has banned interest on medical debt while a handful prohibit wage garnishment for medical debt.”
📝 Current Estimates and Trends in New Hampshire’s Housing Supply – NH Department of Business and Economic Affairs
“23 communities, representing 43.5% of the state’s population, accounted for 63% of the housing built in 2025.”
📝 All Six New England States Gain Population, but Demographic Basis of Gain Varies – UNH Carsey School of Public Policy
“[T]hough Maine and New Hampshire continue to benefit from significant domestic migration gains, more migrants left New England for other U.S. destinations than came to it.”
📝 The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036 – U.S. Congressional Budget Office
“In the near term, CBO anticipates, U.S. businesses will absorb 30 percent of the import price increases by reducing their profit margins; the remaining 70 percent will be passed through to consumers by raising prices.”
📝 NCTI is an Important Part of the Federal Corporate Tax: States Should Adopt It Too – Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
“NCTI, or Net Controlled-Foreign-Corporation Tested Income, is a sweeping definition of profits reported by the foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies. It is the somewhat reworked successor to GILTI, or Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income, that was first enacted at the federal level in 2017.”
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!