Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Food Security for Hawaiʻi Residents

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.

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.

Recommendations on handling Hawaiʻi’s public worker retirement commitments as the Baby Boomer generation prepares to enter retirement.

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.

The Case for Justice for Micronesians in Hawaiʻi