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According to the 2026 Feeding America report, Coos County has the highest overall food insecurity in the state at 15.4 percent with children at 22 percent, followed by Sullivan County with an overall rate of 12.3 percent and children at 18.3 percent.
A new analysis by the Pew Charitable Trusts notes that some states are turning to tax amnesty programs due to the increasing fiscal pressure states face much like the Granite State.
After a preliminary accrual of last fiscal year’s revenues, state budget officials believe the state took in $3.27 billion.
July was an inauspicious beginning to the state’s revenue collection for the 2027 fiscal year.
This week the state will release revenue numbers for the first month of the new fiscal year which began July 1.
The state’s newly implemented bell-to-bell cell phone ban has been effective in reducing distractions in the classroom and improving student focus according to administrators and teachers in a recent Department of Education survey.
U.S. News and World Reports annual ranking of states finds New Hampshire in sixth place, but is ranked number one for the safest state and for economic opportunity, although sixth for overall opportunities for its residents and businesses.
The state education funding system has been challenged for years going back decades, with one of the most recent suits decided by the state Supreme Court and the other still before the court.
In a year when two critical races in New Hampshire could determine the majorities in the US House and US Senate, the Democratic National Committee decided to ignore decades of tradition and history and give another state the first-in-the-nation presidential primary.