Policy in Perspective: 2022
The 2022 Hawaiʻi legislative session included extraordinary examples of the types of actions policymakers can take to rewrite the economic rulebook.
Refunding 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.
Hawaiʻi’s Earned Income Tax Credit: Next Steps
Creating our state Earned Income Tax Credit was an important achievement. Now it’s time to make the state EITC refundable and permanent.
Financial Struggles Facing Working Families in Hawaiʻi
Survey results show half of Hawaiʻi's households are living "paycheck to paycheck."
Creating a State Earned Income Tax Credit
Cutting taxes to strengthen the economy and boost Hawaiʻi’s families: A refundable state Earned Income Tax Credit.
The State of Poverty in Hawaiʻi 2012
How the Great Recession disproportionately impacted Hawaiʻi’s disadvantaged, and policy recommendations to achieve fairness.