Carsey School of Public Policy
UNH Research Shows Number of Childless Women in the U.S. Continues to Rise
Research from the University of New Hampshire reports that in 2024 there were 5.7 million more childless women of prime child-bearing age than expected given prior patterns — a significant jump from 2.1 million in 2016 and 4.7 million in 2022. This shift in fertility patterns has contributed to 11.... Read More
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09/15/25Building a Better Childcare System in New Hampshire
A Carsey School expert breaks down the complicated landscape of childcare in New Hampshire. -
05/22/25Immigrants fuel growth in major U.S. urban counties
In an Associated Press article about immigrants keeping the largest urban counties in the U. S. growing in 2024, the Carsey School's Senior... -
05/22/25The trends behind the historically low U.S. birth rate
CBS News’ 60 Minutes Overtime interviewed the Carsey School’s Senior Demographer Kenneth Johnson to find out what’s happening with American women... -
05/21/25Are Americans Flocking to Low-Tax States?
In this Newsweek article, U.S. News Reporter Jordan King interviews experts to examine the reason Americans are moving to low-tax states. Kenneth...
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05/09/17 - UNH Research Finds Elderly Tax Breaks Have Little Impact on MovesExisting state income tax breaks for the elderly result in non-trivial reductions in state revenue and offer little relief to the most vulnerable elderly, according to new... Read More -
05/08/17 - Bloomberg: New Yorkers Flock to Booming Sun Belt as Trek South Resumes“Think of the recession as freezing people in place -- now that is thawing,” said Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer and public policy professor at the University of New... Read More -
05/02/17 - The Concord Monitor: Report: Child care costs tip many into povertyChilc care costs are often the tipping point in pushing low-income famililes into poverty, new research from the University of New Hampshire's Carsey School of Public Policy... Read More -
05/02/17 - UNH Research Finds Child Care Expenses Push Low-Income Families into PovertyOne-third of poor families who pay for child care – 207,000 nationally -- are pushed into poverty as a result of their child care expenses, according to new research released by... Read More -
05/01/17 - Four UNH Students to Support Families and Communities in New Hampshire through Gov. John G. Winant FellowshipsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 1, 2017 Carsey School of Public Policy (603) 862-2821 carsey.communications@unh.edu Four UNH Students to Support Families and Communities in New... Read More -
04/27/17 - The Washington Post: Ivanka Trump’s claim that for half of U.S. families, ‘the single largest expense is child care’Beth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families at the Carsey School of Public Policy, discusses how nearly one-third (30.4 percent) of families with young children... Read More -
04/25/17 - UNH Research Finds More Than 95 Percent of U.S. Children Have Health InsuranceMore than 95 percent of all U.S. children were covered by some form of health insurance in 2015, the most since data started being collected in 2008, according to new research out... Read More -
04/20/17 - The New York Times: How Child Care Enriches Mothers, and Especially the Sons They RaiseThe Department of Health and Human Services says child care should cost 7 percent of a family’s income at most — but 42 percent of families who buy care for young children spend... Read More -
04/19/17 - Lancaster Farming: New UNH Department Renews Land-Grant MissionA recent program sponsored by UNH’s Carsey School of Public Policy examined the history and impact of land-grant universities, and was well-timed for UNH’s College of Life... Read More -
04/18/17 - UNH Finds Child Poverty Continues to Decline but Racial-Ethnic Disparities PersistBetween 2014 and 2015 child poverty fell for all race-ethnicities except Asians, but patterns in levels and characteristics of child poverty persist, according to researchers at... Read More