The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual “Kids Count” program has ranked New Hampshire as the best state to raise children. This would re-confirm New Hampshire’s #1 status, a place it’s held 4 times in the past 5 years.
Additional Sources:
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?ind=137
New Hampshire was the first state to adopt same-sex union legislation without a challenge of existing law.
Additional Sources:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070426/REPOSITORY/70426002/1030
Kids Count, a project of the Casey Foundation aimed at measuring child well-being in America, has ranked New Hampshire #1 in six of the seven past surveys since 1999. The 2004/2005 year was the only year New Hampshire dropped from the first spot, taking second. It reclaimed it’s #1 spot the following (most recent) year.
Additional Sources:
http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/profile_results.jsp?r=31&d=1
New Hampshire’s Constitution is one of the few in the nation that does not mandate the provision of a public school system.
Additional Sources:
http://www.nh.gov/constitution/constitution.html
A Porcupine | 
07 28th, 2009| 