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Two PRS Teams Testify in Concord
On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, two teams of students from the Rockefeller Center’s Policy Research Shop traveled to Concord, NH to testify before two committees in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. In the morning session, PRS students Leehi Yona ‘16 and Patrick Saylor ’16 testified before the House Science, Technology and Energy Committee, chaired by Rep. Robert Introne. Yona and Saylor presented the findings derived from their PRS Brief, “Modernizing New Hampshire’s Electrical Grid,” co-authored with Jordan Einhorn ‘17 and Dennise Hernandez ’17. They presented their findings to the full committee and responded to questions from committee members following their presentation.
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Tue, 2016-03-08 13:53
PRS Students Testify Before the VT House Committee on Fish, Wildlife, and Water Resources on the Value of Lake Champlain
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016, Policy Research Shop students Julie Decerega ’18, Oscar Guerra ’18, and David Tramonte ’18 testified before the Vermont House Committee on Fish, Wildlife and Water Resources, chaired by Rep. David Deen. The students’ policy brief, “The Value of Lake Champlain: An Economic and Environmental Analysis,” (PRS Brief 1516-01), assessed the value of Lake Champlain by analyzing water quality, property values, tourism, and other measures.
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Wed, 2016-02-24 11:26
PRS Students Testify on the Possible Creation of a Habitual Drug Dealer Registry in the NH House Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety
On Thursday, February 18, 2016, Ray Lu ’18, Jay Raju ’18, and Rachel Scholz-Bright ’18, students from The Class of 1964 Policy Research Shop of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, traveled to Concord to present their research findings to the New Hampshire House of Representatives Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, chaired by Rep. John Tholl. The students presented their policy brief, “Establishing a Drug Dealer Registry in New Hampshire,” while testifying on HB1603, sponsored by Rep. James Belanger. The bill would establish a habitual drug dealer registry in New Hampshire. The students presented to the committee and responded to questions from the committee members.
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Mon, 2015-06-01 12:27
PRS Students Testify on Paycheck Fairness to New Hampshire Women’s Foundation
On Monday, June 1, 2015, Policy Research Shop students Megan Mishra ’17 and Kevin Zhang ’17 traveled to Concord, New Hampshire to meet with the Research and Policy Committee of the NH Women’s Foundation, chaired by New Hampshire Women’s Foundation President and CEO Terie Norelli. They arrived to present the results of several months of research on how to ameliorate New Hampshire’s wage gap. On average, working women in New Hampshire earn seventy-eight cents for every dollar that men earn, and The Paycheck Fairness Act in New Hampshire (SB 207), which went into effect on January 1, 2015, looks to close this gender wage gap by allowing employees to discuss their salaries and identify employer discrimination without the threat of legal retribution. The question the students addressed was how New Hampshire’s legislation might best be implemented.
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Wed, 2015-05-27 14:26
PRS Students Testify on Vermont Town Administrative Cost findings to the Town of Strafford’s SelectBoard
On Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Policy Research Shop students Tyler Stoff ’15, Mariel Wallace ’16, and David Garcia ’16 traveled to the historic Morrill Homestead in Strafford, Vermont to meet with members of the Strafford Selectboard. The PRS students provided the members of the Selectboard, chaired by John Freitag, with an analysis of the salaries of town employees for 49 Vermont towns with populations from 892 to 1,264. The students compared salaries for clerks, assistant clerks, treasurers, and road maintenance crews by town populations, office hours per week, and annual property tax revenues.
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Thu, 2015-04-23 12:39
PRS Students Present Aquaculture findings to New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services
On Thursday, April 23, 2015, Policy Research Shop students, Michael Baicker ’17 and Ke Zhao ’17, traveled to Concord to present their findings to the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES). Baicker and Zhao, along with teammate Mary Katherine Andrews, have spent the past six months completing research on aquaculture policy for the Wetlands Bureau of the NH Department of Environmental Services. Their policy brief, “Developing New Hampshire Aquaculture Regulation: A Comparative Case Study of Eastern Coastal States,” was presented by Baicker and Zhao to Tom Burack ’82, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Services, Dori Wiggin, the regional supervisor of the DES Wetlands Bureau (responsible for promulgating the new Aquaculture rules), and three of her staff members.
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Thu, 2015-04-09 12:45
PRS Students Testify on Natural Gas to the NH House Committee on Science, Technology, and Energy
On Thursday, April 9, 2015, Maggie Fiertz ’15, Mark Sheridan ’15, and Hamza Abbasi ’16, students from The Class of 1964 Policy Research Shop of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, traveled to Concord to present their research findings to New Hampshire House of Representatives Committee on Science, Technology and Energy, chaired by Rep. Robert E. Introne. The students presented their policy brief, “Natural Gas in New Hampshire,” to the full committee and responded to questions from the committee members. The students discussed the current mix of renewable and non-renewable energy sources utilized in New Hampshire and across the New England states and assessed the current and future prospects for natural gas as a “bridge fuel” for meeting energy needs.
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Thu, 2015-03-12 12:49
PRS Students Present Potential Trust Fund Strategies to VT House Committee on Fish, Wildlife and Water Resources
On Thursday, March 12, 2015, three PRS students traveled to Montpelier, VT to testify before the Vermont House Committee on Fish, Wildlife, and Water Resources, chaired by Rep. David Deen. The students—Ana Marija Pongrac ’15, Tyler Stoff ’15, and Katelyn Schultz ’16—presented their policy brief, “Vermont Environmental Trust Fund Establishment: An Analysis of Potential Strategies” and fielded questions from committee members. The students provided the committee with case studies of other states that had implemented environmental trust funds, including North Carolina, Maryland, and Nebraska.
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Tue, 2015-03-03 11:58
PRS Students Present Minimum Wage Findings to NH Senate Finance Committee
On Tuesday, March 3, 2015, four Dartmouth undergraduates from the Rockefeller Center’s Policy Research Shop traveled to Concord, NH to testify before the NH Senate Finance Committee on SB 261, a bill to raise the minimum wage in New Hampshire above the federal minimum wage standard of $7.25 per hour. The PRS students—Andrew Carothers ’17, Sam Libby ’17, Joby Bernstein ’17, and Gabriel Lopez Low ’15—provided an overview of the background and demographics relating to the minimum wage in New Hampshire (PRS Policy Brief 1415-01).
Submitted by Rockefeller Cen... on Wed, 2014-08-20 13:08
PRS Students Present on Child Welfare Policies and Youth Foster Care Placement
Sakina Abu Boakye ’16, Irene Cofie ’16, Sarah Ogren ’16, and Mariel Wallace ’16 from the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center Policy Research Shop traveled to Concord Wednesday, August 20, 2014, to present the results of two research projects to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Children Youth and Families (DCYF). Over several months Sakina, Irene, and Mariel examined the reasons for substantiation of child maltreatment with both quantitative and qualitative analyses, and produced their policy brief, “Child Maltreatment in New Hampshire: Assessing the Substantiation Process.”
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