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 July 2025:

📄 Housing Trends: Older Households are Moving Less, and Multigenerational Living Is Rising – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

“…more than 500,000 additional bedrooms—nearly 13 percent more—may have been available in 2023 if the mobility of older households had remained at its 2019 level.” 

📄 Additional Manufactured Housing Could Benefit Millions of U.S. Homebuyers  – The Pew Charitable Trusts 

“…[E]ven considering that manufactured homes must be shipped and installed on a lot, they still cost 35% to 73% as much as construction of a traditional home, not including the land costs.”  

📄 How the Senate Budget Reconciliation SNAP Proposals Will Affect Families in Every US State  – Urban Institute 

This report estimates that 44,000 Granite State families will lose some or all of their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits under new federal policies. For the 8,000 Granite State families with a monthly benefit reduction of at least $25 or more, the estimated average monthly benefit reduction would be $104, or $1,248 annually. 

📄 A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families  – National Bureau of Economic Research 

“Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergarten-aged children in this time frame.” 

📄 Analysis of Tax Provisions in the Senate Reconciliation Bill: National and State Level Estimates  – Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy

According to this analysis, Granite State households in the bottom 20 percent of incomes will have an estimated average tax reduction of $200 as a result of the federal reconciliation bill in 2026, while households in the top 1 percent of incomes will have an average tax reduction of $59,170. 

💡 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!