By Dana Wormald | Editor
Good morning, New Hampshire, and welcome to a new week. Today, Maya Mitchell reports on how some businesses are offering childcare as an employee perk while also chipping away at the overall early care and education crunch. In the Monday commentary, Brendan Williams argues that the DNC’s move away from New Hampshire at the top of the presidential nominating calendar is a mistake. And, from Stateline’s Robbie Sequeira, a look at how the new federal housing law could affect local building efforts nationwide. Thank you for reading, and enjoy the day. — Dana
Two infants play during nap time at FitKids Childcare at River Valley Club in Lebanon. Their dad works as a personal trainer at the club’s fitness center. (Photo by Maya Mitchell/ New Hampshire Bulletin)
By Maya Mitchell
Granite State employers say housing, childcare, and the cost of living are the biggest problems affecting their workers, and each issue challenges their ability to recruit and retain young employees. In an economy where employment and childcare go hand in hand, and in a state where the government continues to look to the private sector for solutions, some employers have gone the extra mile to help their staffs.
A "Write-In Joe Biden" campaign sign sits in a Portsmouth snow bank. (File photo by Hadley Barndollar/New Hampshire Bulletin)
COMMENTARY
By Brendan Williams
“For those who might suggest our state lacks the diversity to go first, I would ask what one’s definition of diversity is. Isn’t age a demographic? New Hampshire has the nation’s second-oldest population.”
By Robbie Sequeira
Championed as one of the most consequential and bipartisan federal housing laws in decades, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act enacted this month makes significant changes across federal housing policy. Some of its most notable provisions give local governments greater flexibility in using federal grants while introducing new financial rewards and penalties tied to housing production.
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