With anemic economic growth, a well-documented lack of in-migration and the percentage of New Hampshire’s population age 65 and older set to double over the next 20 years, policy makers need to make some serious choices. They can maintain the status quo and risk falling further behind our regional counterparts. Or, they can follow the will of more than 74 percent of New Hampshire residents who support passenger rail expansion and the thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate development and reinvested worker’s earnings that it will deliver. Either way, large and small business owners are watching.
