If the state says you have to do something that costs $20,000, but the state only gives you $5,000...is that, well, adequate?

Liz asks Zack if school funding is fair in New Hampshire and Zack reminds everyone that renters are also impacted by property taxes.

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Links:

• New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project's website
• Zack's testimony about the state budget to the NH House Finance Committee
• HB 283 public hearing audio
• School funding, and lots more, still on the table at midpoint of NH Legislature's year (NHPR)
• School Funding Study (Carsey School of Public Policy)
• Adequate: How a State Decides the Value of Public Education (NHPR)
• Public Schools should have the resources they need (Reaching Higher NH)

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Childcare in New Hampshire: just as expensive as college, but without student loan options...and a potential 18-month wait time!

Liz asks Kenz whether $5,000 is enough to resolve the childcare issue and Kenz asks Liz why people want to ban books.

New episodes every Tuesday. 

Links:

• MomsRising NH
• SB 243: the remaining bill in the NH legislature addressing childcare
• The Fragile Economics of the Child Care Sector (New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute)
• New Study: Child Care Shortages May Cost New Hampshire Businesses Up To $56 Million Annually (New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute)
• The Economic Impact of the Granite State’s Child Care Shortage (New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute)
• The Economic Impact of America’s Child Care Gap (The Bipartisan Policy Center)
• Fewer Providers, Longer Distances: New Hampshire’s Child Care Landscape (UNH Carsey School of Public Policy)

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Yes, we're in the "Live Free or Die" state, but somehow we don't have the right to abortion? Wait, that can't be right...

Liz asks Kayla how this happened, and Kayla later asks Liz why this podcast even exists.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Links:

• Planned Parenthood NH Action Fund Linktree
• The "opposite" of the right to abortion in NH state law (The General Court of New Hampshire)
• Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s Inauguration Speech - vetoing any new abortion restrictions (New Hampshire PBS)
• New Hampshire Family Planning Program: State Budget Amendments (The General Court of New Hampshire)
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Introducing New Hampshire Has Issues - a podcast that dares to ask, how many issues can one state have? 

In this sneak peek, Liz and Kayla talk about how, no, we actually don't have the right to abortion in New Hampshire. Spoiler alert.

Full episodes coming in early May.

Links:

Website: New Hampshire Has Issues

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