On Tuesday, advocates working on behalf of New Hampshire’s children pitched staffing a new “warmline” for families struggling to keep it together during the COVID-19 crisis.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

Big Spike in Unemployment Claims

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

Some 27,454 New Hampshire workers and business owners filed initial unemployment claims in the week ending March 28, bringing the number of claims for benefits in the Granite State to 56,833 in two weeks.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

Internet Providers Managing Surge

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

The internet service providers with the largest portion of the New Hampshire market report traffic is up, as so many employees work from home, students use remote learning tools and people spend more of their leisure time stream videos and play games online.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

Out-of-Towners Head North

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

The new arrivals are looking for an escape amid the coronavirus pandemic – causing an unusual sense of tension in places where locals and out-of-towners can usually coexist.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

COVI-19 Affects Landlord-Tenant Relations

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

Emergency Order #4 prohibits the initiation of eviction proceedings for the duration of the State of Emergency.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

International College Students in Limbo

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

More than 4,000 international college students in New Hampshire are facing a sober reality: the risk of going home.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

COVID-19 and the Gig Economy

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

Gov. Chris Sununu passed emergency legislation that made self-employed workers eligible for unemployment benefits if they have lost work and income due to COVID-19.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

NH Considers Hotels for COVID-19 Overflow

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

Homeless advocates and officials have struggled in recent weeks to develop a solution for how to house and keep socially distanced the state’s homeless population.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

Makerspaces Manufacture Faceshields, Masks

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

In response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, makerspaces across the state have mobilized an effort to manufacture protective face shields for health care workers.

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

At-Risk Populations May Need More Care

Melanie Plenda

April 2, 2020

COVID-19

With higher estimated percentages of older adults and younger at-risk adults than the country as a whole, New Hampshire’s health care system may be especially strained to respond to this crisis.

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

CARES Act a Lifeline to Businesses

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Many small businesses breathed a sigh of relief when Congress passed the CARES Act to help prevent them from going under during the Covid-19 outbreak, providing hope that when it is safe to do so, they can bring their employees back and resume operations.

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Stimulus Package Bolsters Range of Services

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

New Hampshire’s federal delegation is providing more detail on how the $2 trillion stimulus package signed into law last week will benefit the state.

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Remote Learning Successes and Struggles

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Schools are figuring out how to deliver the essentials to students at home, but a lot of teachers and families say that even those basics are overwhelming.

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Landlords Grapple With Drop in Rents

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

New Hampshire landlords are discovering that many checks are not in the mail and are not coming soon – and there is very little they can do about it because eviction is no longer an option.

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Unprecedented Unemployment Demand

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

In the week of March 14-21, there were 28,000 new claims filed.

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

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State Seeking COVID-19 Overflow Space

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Flex areas are starting to be designated across the Granite State as locations that hospitals can depend on to house COVID-19 and non-COVID patients if hospitals become overwhelmed.

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Outbreak Disrupts 2020 Census Plans

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

U.S. Census Bureau officials have shifted timelines for 2020 Census operations and anticipate hiring more census-takers in New Hampshire and nationwide in preparation for intense canvassing later this year.

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Advocate Call for Special Education Access

Melanie Plenda

April 1, 2020

COVID-19

Disability advocates are working to protect the right to education of special education students, many of whom are not able to receive all the services remotely that they would in a physical classroom.