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A report by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute indicates potential changes to Medicaid — the state-federal health insurance program — could cost the state about half a billion dollars in federal money and likely end the Granite Advantage Program, for the state’s working poor.
The 2025 session of the New Hampshire legislature began with a number of hot button issues that have garnered headlines from universal Education Freedom Accounts to restricting abortion rights.
Public tax dollars should not fund a religious education, the House Education Funding Committee was told Friday.
During the hearing on SB 13, committee member state Sen. Debra Altschiller, D-Stratham, noted the Federation for American Immigration Reform has been declared a hate group after Shari Rendall of the organization testified in favor of the legislation.
Opponents of the latest “right-to-work” bill said it was Ground Hog Day again with the unpopular provision that failed time and time again to become law in New Hampshire.
The superintendent of Newport schools urged lawmakers “to do right” by her students and significantly increase state spending on public education.
The advocates for opening the state’s school voucher program, Education Freedom Accounts, to all students in the state regardless of their parents’ income did a massive public relations and organization effort before the public hearing last week on House 115, which would remove the salary cap from the four-year old program.
Removing the salary cap from the Education Freedom Account program will expand alternative education opportunities to all the state’s children, supporters said Thursday at a public hearing.
New Hampshire is not alone in facing budget cuts, increased taxes or tapping its rainy day fund in the next few years to balance its financial books.