Livable Wages in New Hampshire

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By Laura Knoy on Monday, December 11, 2006.
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A new study has come out on the livable wage in New Hampshire, the amount of money you need to earn to pay for the cost of basic needs. It turns out that the cost of living here is growing faster than our wages and can be attributed to a number of factors, including the costs of daycare, healthcare and housing. We'll look at the results of this study and what broad policy impacts this trend may have on our state.

Laura's guests are Daphne Kenyon of D.A. Kenyon & Associates, the study's researcher and author; Steve Norton, Executive Director of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies; and Russ Thibault, Economist and President of Applied Economic Research in Laconia.

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