By taxing capital gains at the same rate as regular income, Hawaiʻi can make its tax code more fair while funding critical investments in education, housing, healthcare, and support for working families.

Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Food Security for Hawaiʻi Residents

An analysis of Hawaiʻi’s pandemic-era rent relief and pre-litigation mediation program created through Act 57 (2021).

A guide to understanding the basics of the Hawaiʻi state budget and its importance to society.

The missed opportunity of federal child nutrition programs in Hawaiʻi.

How expanding the state Earned Income Tax Credit to make it refundable can boost the economy and provide opportunity to Hawaiʻi’s working families.

Tax credits can fine-tune the tax system to promote social welfare and encourage economic activity by delivering targeted tax relief.

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. 

The State Government’s Crucial Role in Countering the Pandemic Recession.

40 Years of Rising Costs & Stagnant Wages.

How We Invest in our State, Communities and People.

Hawaiʻi’s post-COVID-19 economy should be one informed by an understanding that the old economic order had been failing many Hawaiʻi residents for decades.

Policy and spending decisions to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on Hawaiʻi and its people.

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

Looking back at the Great Recession, 2007–09.

An overview of how Hawaiʻi invests in our future and our people.

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.

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

Native Hawaiian Issues Project Report

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