{"id":1306,"date":"2010-09-20T22:58:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T03:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2010-09-20T22:58:06","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T03:58:06","slug":"nhs-business-climate-is-among-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/09\/20\/nhs-business-climate-is-among-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"NH&#8217;s Business Climate is Among Worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article from  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhbr.com\/businessnews\/statenews\/859102-257\/study-sees-high-manufacturing-costs-in-n.h..html\">NH Business Review<\/a> NH is losing ground when it comes to being &#8216;business friendly&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The perception of a welcoming business climate is propagated by the state\u2019s lack of income and sales tax, said Roche, but other factors \u2013 including the high costs of energy, labor and health care, teamed with high business taxes \u2013 limits New Hampshire\u2019s competitive edge when it comes to keeping manufacturers in-state, he said. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Further, the article stated that the results of a new study done by the University of Connecticut called <strong>&#8216;High Wages, Low Costs: A Connecticut Paradox&#8217;<\/strong> &#8220;would surprise many policymakers.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhbr.com\/businessnews\/statenews\/859102-257\/study-sees-high-manufacturing-costs-in-n.h..html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this article from NH Business Review NH is losing ground when it comes to being &#8216;business friendly&#8217;. &#8220;The perception of a welcoming business climate is propagated by the state\u2019s lack of income and sales tax, said Roche, but other factors \u2013 including the high costs of energy, labor and health care, teamed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-broadbased","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}