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According to early estimates, anywhere from 14,000 to 29,000 New Hampshire Medicaid enrollees, or 28.2 to 58.5% of the May 2026 Medicaid Expansion population, could lose coverage by 2028.
Because these decisions are made after the budget becomes law, they often receive less public attention despite potentially affecting programs and services that many Granite Staters rely on.
The analysis, authored by NHFPI Senior Policy Analyst Jessica Williams, includes an interactive map that allows readers to explore population changes in every New Hampshire municipality and download the underlying data.
At the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute, we spend a lot of time examining the challenges facing New Hampshire, including housing affordability, child care costs, and property taxes. But the data also tell another story too.
This Mother’s Day, the NHFPI team is recognizing the hard work of New Hampshire mothers by doing what we do best: highlighting key data that underscores both the challenges mothers face and the vital contributions they make across the Granite State.
Thursday, March 26, 2026 marks National Women’s Equal Pay Day, the day that represents how far into the new calendar year the median full-time, year-round working woman would need to work to earn what the median full-time, year-round working man earned in the previous year.
A new analysis from the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute that reveals that while New Hampshire’s population grew by 30,300 people between 2020 and 2024, the growth was uneven.
In short: the total $81.3 million reclaimed by the federal government provided flexible funding support for public health and behavioral health initiatives across the state – funds that were expected to continue into 2026.
During the 2021-2023 period, approximately 42,300 New Hampshire households, or 7.4 percent of households in the state, were food insecure.