Federal spending in New Hampshire totaled $21.8 billion in Federal Fiscal Year 2022 -an amount equal to about 21 percent of the state’s total economy. These funds include Social Security, Medicaid, military contracts, tax credits, higher education support, and wages for federal workers - highlighting the broad impact of federal dollars across New Hampshire’s economy.

During the past decade, New Hampshire has experienced several ongoing trends in terms of its population size and changing demographics. Population growth has been largely influenced by both international and domestic migration, rather than births in the state. While statewide population has increased, particularly during the current decade, counties have experienced population changes differently, with ...

Fueled by accumulated savings and federally-funded economic stimulus, the national and New Hampshire economies have rebounded quickly from the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite forecasts of another recession in 2022 or early 2023, the national and state economies largely remained resilient and have avoided a downturn.[1] However, the expansion of the state’s economy ...

Despite a strong economic recovery from the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than two years later, many Granite Staters face challenges that make affording everyday needs difficult. Job growth in the last two years has been much faster than originally expected, mirroring other rebounding indicators of a strong economy, in large part due ...