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.

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.

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.

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

Native Hawaiian Issues Project Report

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