COMBINED state and local taxes often require Granite State residents with lower incomes to pay a larger percentage of their income than those with higher incomes, the NH Fiscal Policy Institute recently reported. New Hampshire is one of 42 states where the top 1% of earners under age 65 pay less than the bottom 20%, the Nonpartisan Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy found in a study.

DATA from a recent survey by community college network Unmudl found that nearly half of job seekers have been looking for a job for six months or longer (42%). About 57% feel a lack of skills is holding them back, while 50% have submitted 10 or fewer applications.

OWNERS of some small businesses had difficulty with rent in January, with 37% reporting they could not pay their rent in full and on time, per a survey of 6,101 random U.S. small business owners by small business referral network Alignable. That’s 7 percentage points higher than January 2023. Meanwhile, 50% of minority-owned small businesses had trouble paying rent, down 9% from December.

IN a recent survey of 557 full-time U.S. workers, career resource ResumeBuilder.com found that more than half of workers forced to return to an office plan to seek new jobs this year. Of those, 70% are seeking a higher salary, 56% want better benefits, 50% want more growth opportunities, and 43% prefer working fewer days in an office setting.

ACCORDING to an August 2023 Pew Research Center survey of 2,745 random U.S. adult TikTok users, only a minority of users are responsible for creating the majority of content on the social media app. Typical TikTok users rarely, if ever, post content, with nearly half the app’s users having never posted a video themselves.