Seizing Local Levers in Uncertain Times.

The 2025 legislative session convened under twin existential threats: Hawaiʻi’s worsening affordability crisis, and an impending fiscal tsunami of federal budget cuts.

An Assessment of Hawaiʻi’s Food and Nutrition Services Landscape.

Looking forward from the 2024 state legislative session.

Universal Free School Meal programs are powerful tools to promote equity, support economic justice, and combat childhood food insecurity in Hawaiʻi and across the United States.

Looking forward from the 2023 state legislative session.

Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Food Security for Hawaiʻi Residents

The missed opportunity of federal child nutrition programs in Hawaiʻi.

Policymakers have shaped an economy that relies far too much on extractive tourism that provides little to residents in return. To reverse these trends, we need a dramatic shift in our public policy. 

Building food system resilience and feeding families in the time of COVID-19.

An overview of Hawaiʻi’s senior hunger safety net and how to strengthen it.

All of Hawaiʻi’s children deserve a good education that opens up opportunities for the rest of their lives. But hungry keiki can't learn.

How Hawaiʻi’s low-income residents are faring post-recovery.

Survey results show half of Hawaiʻi's households are living "paycheck to paycheck."

SNAP and the EITC in Hawaiʻi

Recommendations to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature

How the Great Recession disproportionately impacted Hawaiʻi’s disadvantaged, and policy recommendations to achieve fairness.