NHFPI’s research and analysis activities focus on four major topics:

State Budget

NHFPI aims to illustrate recent budget trends, highlight future challenges, and examine the ways in which the New Hampshire budget is used to educate the state’s children, ensure access to health care, promote public safety, maintain public structures, and achieve other critical public priorities.

State Tax

NHFPI seeks to improve public understanding of New Hampshire’s tax system, its role in financing state expenditures, the impact it has on families and individuals at different income levels, and the influence it may or may not have upon personal and business decisions.

State Economy

NHFPI endeavors to shed light on trends in employment, wages, poverty, and other economic measures, on their implications for working New Hampshirites, and on public policies designed to foster economic opportunity, prosperity and security for all New Hampshire residents.

Federal Matters

NHFPI strives to explain the effects of federal policy decisions upon both the New Hampshire budget and New Hampshire residents and to explore changes in federal policies that could help New Hampshire meet the challenges before it, now and into the future.