Granite Institute

Providing Educational Opportunity Is the New Hampshire Way

Dec 19, 2017

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Category: School Choice

The Granite Institute today released two new reports to help policymakers, community leaders and education advocates understand K-12 education savings accounts or ESAs. The first report explores New Hampshire’s history of providing public funding for children to learn at private schools, and the second report explains how ESAs work in other states.

Tags : Education Savings Account, ESA, Town Tuitioning, EdChoice, Jody Underwood

School Choice is a Needed Tool in Fight Against Demographic Winter

Apr 22, 2017

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Category: School Choice

The Granite State is on the precipice of Demographic Winter which is a situation where there are too few young people to support the current level of population. Population decline will have negative impacts to the economy and, correspondingly, to government revenue (down) and spending (up). Boosting school choice in New Hampshire, with an ESA bill like SB 193, is a crucial step in fighting Demographic Winter.

Tags : Demographic Winter, School Choice, Wealth Effect, Education Savings Account, SB 193

The New Hampshire Advantage in One Chart

Jan 09, 2017

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There is perhaps no greater goal for the Granite Institute than fighting to preserve and extend the New Hampshire Advantage. Historically this means no income or sales tax, but maintaining our advantage into the future will entail other important policy changes such as increasing educational choices and enacting right-to-work.

Tags : New Hampshire Advantage, Income Tax, Sales Tax, Right-to-Work, Educational Choice, Maine, Medicaid, Private Sector Share of Personal Income, Personal Income

Right-to-Work in New Hampshire: Good for Workers and Unions

Jan 09, 2017

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Category: Economics

Anti-worker rights activists like to refer to Right-to-Work laws as “Right-to-Work (For Less),” in their attempt to scare union members and lawmakers. But Right-to-Work actually brings more – not less – to states that pass these laws: more jobs, more union members, more workplace freedom, and more unions providing value to members.