Health policies have enormous impacts on the lives on Granite Staters. Federal programs such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program have critical roles in the health and well-being of many Granite State children and families. Health programs that support individuals with disabilities, fund home-based care, and provide access to mental health and behavioral health services are essential to helping ensure the health needs of New Hampshire residents are addressed.
NHFPI strives to explain the effects of health policy decisions, both federal and state, upon the New Hampshire budget and New Hampshire residents and to explore changes in policies that could help maintain and improve people’s health, now and into the future.
First published in Business New Hampshire Magazine, November 21, 2025. Are Granite Staters better off economically than they were a year ago? In September, the U.S. Census Bureau released new data that shows while the financial well-being of Granite Staters did not get worse between 2023 and 2024, it did not improve either. For many ...
Last month, NHFPI held our 10th Annual Budget and Policy Conference, “Working Hard and Falling Behind: The High Cost of Living in New Hampshire,” where we convened experts from across sectors to discuss the drivers of high costs and offer solutions for building a more affordable future for all Granite Staters. Among the four featured ...
What to Know: As the federal government shutdown continues, as many as 76,000 New Hampshire residents likely faced disruptions to critical food assistance on November 1. Rural communities may feel the greatest impact – about two-thirds of the state’s SNAP recipients live outside its five largest cities, and access to food from alternative sources may ...
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 ...
First published in Valley News, October 22, 2025; also republished in Concord Monitor, Union Leader, Patch, and Manchester Ink Link. Every time we post on social media about New Hampshire’s affordability ...
Soaring prices for housing and health care have turned family budgets from surplus to deficit Concord, N.H. – A new analysis from the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute found that ...