Although surrounded by states with minimum wages of over $10 an hour, New Hampshire holds to the federal minimum wage at $7.25 an hour, the lowest in New England.
If you're making close to the minimum wage in New Hampshire, can you make rent?
- Kathy Staub, Manchester listener and field representative at Rights & Democracy NH
- Annette Nielsen, economist at New Hampshire's Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau
- Bill Ray, New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority
- Brian Gottlob, principal of PolEcon research in Dover, New Hampshire