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.
Eviction Prevention Through Hawaiʻi’s Tenant-Landlord Mediation Program
An analysis of Hawaiʻi’s pandemic-era rent relief and pre-litigation mediation program created through Act 57 (2021).
Policy in Perspective: 2021
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.
Hawaiʻi Wages and Household Costs
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.
Hawaiʻi COVID-19 Response
Policy and spending decisions to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on Hawaiʻi and its people.
Gambling with Paradise
The Effect of Gambling on Low-Income Individuals, Families and Communities
The State of Poverty in Hawaiʻi 2012
How the Great Recession disproportionately impacted Hawaiʻi’s disadvantaged, and policy recommendations to achieve fairness.
