Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Food Security for Hawaiʻi Residents

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. 

40 Years of Rising Costs & Stagnant Wages.

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.

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.

The Need for a Working Family Credit

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.