The State Government’s Crucial Role in Countering the Pandemic Recession.

40 Years of Rising Costs & Stagnant Wages.

In the context of COVID-19, correctional facilities are public health disasters waiting to happen.

How We Invest in our State, Communities and People.

Policy and spending decisions to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic on Hawaiʻi and its people.

Creating our state Earned Income Tax Credit was an important achievement. Now it’s time to make the state EITC refundable and permanent.

Patients, providers, and administrators alike agree that quality mental health care is hard to come by—there is a catastrophic dearth of services for low-income youth.

Looking back at the Great Recession, 2007–09.

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

An overview of how Hawaiʻi invests in our future and our people.

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."

Cutting taxes to strengthen the economy and boost Hawaiʻi’s families: A refundable state Earned Income Tax Credit.

SNAP and the EITC in Hawaiʻi

Recommendations to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature

The Effect of Gambling on Low-Income Individuals, Families and Communities

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