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Wednesday, February 8, 2017 |
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Cost of Living: Only Manhattan is More Expensive than Honolulu
By News Release @ 12:57 AM :: 5046 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...six components: housing, utilities, grocery items, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services....
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017 |
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County Employees in Hawaii make double what private sector workers make
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:14 PM :: 6502 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...Honolulu County workers make more than neighbor island workers....
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Monday, February 6, 2017 |
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Hawaii government growing faster than private sector
By Grassroot Institute @ 2:41 PM :: 5095 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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...New data show government outpacing private sector, pointing to an unhealthy economy....
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Monday, February 6, 2017 |
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Fluoridated Water Reduces Gender Pay Gap by 4%
By Selected News Articles @ 2:19 AM :: 4912 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...“women who resided in communities with fluoridated water during childhood earn approximately 4% more than women who did not,” adding that they found “no effect of fluoridation for men.”....
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Saturday, February 4, 2017 |
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Hawaii Union Membership #2 in USA–21.7%
By News Release @ 12:33 PM :: 4240 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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New York continued to have the highest union membership rate (23.6 percent), Hawaii and Alaska are tied for second at 21.7 percent each....
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Hawaii public employee benefits rise 5 times faster than private sector
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:22 PM :: 5985 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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Salaries and benefits of Hawaii government workers have increased by 26 percent in the past decade....
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Friday, February 3, 2017 |
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Hawaii GE Tax Bites into 99.21% of personal income
By Tax Foundation @ 4:52 PM :: 4611 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Taxes
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Hawaii has the broadest sales tax in the United States, but it taxes many products multiple times and, by one estimate, ultimately taxes 99.21 percent of the state’s personal income....
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Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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Hawaii Did Not Issue Any Gun-Carry Permits to Private Citizens in 2016
By Selected News Articles @ 11:30 PM :: 5050 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Second Amendment
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Documents submitted by county police to the state's Department of the Attorney General show that every application by a private citizen for a concealed-carry permit was denied in 2016....
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Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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Hawaii: The State of Tobacco Control
By News Release @ 2:55 AM :: 4629 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Grade F -- Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Funding....
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Thursday, February 2, 2017 |
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Hawaii Tops Gallup Well-Being Index for 6th Year Straight
By News Release @ 2:35 AM :: 4547 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hawaii, Alaska and South Dakota, states with track records of high well-being, were the top states in the 2016 rankings....
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017 |
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Report: A Decade of Human Trafficking in Hawaii
By News Release @ 4:31 PM :: 6467 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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...2016 data from the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline, Polaris's BeFree Textline, and communications....
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 |
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County workers in Hawaii make highest wages in the nation
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:22 PM :: 7657 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor
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...county workers in Hawaii make a mean average wage of $61,365 a year....
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 |
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2016 National Citizen Survey for the City and County of Honolulu
By News Release @ 1:49 AM :: 4983 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics
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This is the eighth National Citizen Survey of Honolulu residents conducted for the City....
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017 |
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High-Speed Internet: Hawaii Schools #1 in USA
By News Release @ 1:25 AM :: 5150 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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...every student in Hawaii, Kentucky, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Wyoming meets the minimum connectivity goal of 100 kilobits per second (kbps) per student....
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Friday, January 27, 2017 |
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Hawaii 8th Largest Educational Attainment Gap
By News Release @ 1:37 PM :: 4759 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Higher Education
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Generally, the higher the level of education one attains, the more income potential grows and the lower chances of unemployment become....
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Friday, January 27, 2017 |
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Honolulu 7th Most Expensive Housing on Earth
By Selected News Articles @ 1:36 AM :: 5193 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...unaffordable housing is almost everywhere and every time caused by the same factor: housing supply restrictions....
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Thursday, January 26, 2017 |
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Study: More Corrupt States Have Higher Public Debt
By Selected News Articles @ 2:18 AM :: 4777 Views :: Ethics, Hawaii Statistics
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The link between corruption and debt is particularly prominent for private projects, such as stadiums....
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Thursday, January 26, 2017 |
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Hawaii #2 in USA for Arrests of K-12 Students
By News Release @ 1:52 AM :: 5791 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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And a whopping 9.8% of Hawaii K-12 students were referred to law enforcement, by far the highest in USA....
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Thursday, January 26, 2017 |
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Medicare Overbilling: Hawaii ranks 16th
By News Release @ 1:14 AM :: 5251 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Waste Chief Reason Medicare Predicted to be Bankrupt by 2028....
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017 |
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Hawaii Non-Governmental Workers Receive Lowest Pay in USA
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:59 PM :: 8318 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Cost of Living
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...non-government workers in Hawaii make, on average, $43,544 in annual pay and benefits (adjusted for cost of living) which ranks as the lowest compensation in in the nation....
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Monday, January 23, 2017 |
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Affordable Retirement? Not in Hawaii
By News Release @ 4:56 PM :: 4563 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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If retirement is still a big question mark for you because of finances, consider relocating to a state that lets you keep more money in your pocket....
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Friday, January 20, 2017 |
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Lost Jobs: Obamacare Impact on Hawaii
By News Release @ 9:32 PM :: 5821 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Small Business
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How many lost jobs, shuttered businesses and lost earnings in Hawaii? ....
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Friday, January 20, 2017 |
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How Does Hawaii Score on Healthcare Access?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:11 PM :: 4411 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Mercatus Center Healthcare Openness and Access Project – Hawaii Ranks 29th....
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Thursday, January 19, 2017 |
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Asset Forfeiture Transparency & Accountability—Hawaii Grade D+
By News Release @ 11:49 PM :: 5027 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Law Enforcement
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Every year, local, state and federal law enforcement agencies across the United States seize and keep billions of dollars in cash, cars, homes and other property using a legal tool called forfeiture....
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017 |
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Best State to Raise a Family? Hawaii Ranks 33rd
By Selected News Articles @ 9:15 PM :: 5921 Views :: Family, Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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Raising a healthy, stable family sometimes requires moving to a new state....
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017 |
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Hawaii Dead Last for Pass-Thru Businesses
By Tax Foundation @ 8:36 PM :: 4911 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business
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In 49 out of 50 states, pass-through businesses employ over 50 percent of the private workforce. The one exception is Hawaii....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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Hawaii Among Most Expensive States for Smokers
By Selected News Articles @ 1:55 PM :: 5506 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Taxes
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...Total Cost Per Smoker: $2,048,587....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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Wind Turbines Are Killing Way More Bats Than Any Expected
By Selected News Articles @ 3:10 AM :: 7481 Views :: Energy, Environment, Hawaii Statistics
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In the last five years, America’s wind turbines killed more than three times as many birds as the BP oil spill did....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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Hawaii residents most likely to live paycheck to paycheck
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 4854 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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...Total leftover income after cost of living expenses: -$367.09 Hawaii is the only state where the median earner is in the hole....
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 |
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Gun Deaths Per Capita: Hawaii ranks 49th
By News Release @ 2:39 AM :: 6373 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Second Amendment
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Household Gun Ownership 12.5 percent....
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Monday, January 16, 2017 |
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Full Text: New report concludes Airbnb has ‘no material impact’ on Hawaii housing inventory
By News Release @ 4:48 PM :: 6551 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism, Cost of Living
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Listings booked more than half the year on AirBnB make up only 0.18% of Hawaii housing stock....
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Sunday, January 15, 2017 |
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Obamacare? Nobody Wants it Less than Honolulu
By Selected News Articles @ 12:11 AM :: 4955 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hawaii CD1 has the lowest Obamacare enrollment in the USA....
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Friday, January 13, 2017 |
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Hawaii Healthcare Access Cut off by Regulations
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 3:21 PM :: 5043 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...some great scores...and some very, very poor ones....
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Thursday, January 12, 2017 |
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Thursday, January 12, 2017 |
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Hawaii Better to Rent Than Buy
By News Release @ 9:42 PM :: 5430 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Cost of Living
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Home Ownership More Costly Than Renting on Oahu, Maui, Big Island ....
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Thursday, January 12, 2017 |
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Pedestrian Deaths—Hawaii Ranks 26th
By News Release @ 9:30 PM :: 5331 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics
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...older adults are over-represented among pedestrian deaths....
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017 |
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Which States Rely the Most on Federal Aid?–Hawaii 46th
By Tax Foundation @ 10:07 PM :: 3355 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...states that rely heavily on federal assistance tend to have modest tax collections and a relatively large low-income population....
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Monday, January 9, 2017 |
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Hawaii most racially integrated state (Except Healthcare)
By News Release @ 5:22 PM :: 5012 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hawaii ranks 44th in "equality and integration" of healthcare....
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Friday, January 6, 2017 |
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State pension debt will likely get worse
By Grassroot Institute @ 7:53 PM :: 4721 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Hawaii Statistics
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"Our membership will live two to three years longer, which means we’ll have to pay...."
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Friday, January 6, 2017 |
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UHERO: Regulating Home-Share Rentals in Hawaii
By UHERO @ 2:08 AM :: 6166 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Small Business, Tourism
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Last year nearly one in three U.S. travelers stayed in home-based accommodation units compared to one in ten in 2011....
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Thursday, January 5, 2017 |
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Honolulu: 1,309 Lane-Miles Repaved
By News Release @ 10:14 AM :: 4398 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics
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Upcoming projects this year include the repaving of N. King Street and Kalākaua and Nu‘uanu avenues in town, and across O‘ahu projects in Mākaha, Makakilo/Kapolei, Waialua and St. Louis Heights....
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017 |
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Education Week: Hawaii Grade ‘C’, Ranks 25th
By News Release @ 5:26 PM :: 4558 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics
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Hawaii’s 2017 Highlights Report includes summarized results based on each of the nearly 40 indicators that make up Quality Counts’ overall grading rubric....
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017 |
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Bedbugs: Honolulu Crawls up to 48th in USA
By News Release @ 2:59 AM :: 6769 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Tourism
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Nationally, Orkin's bed bug revenue is up more than 10 percent over last year....
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017 |
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2015 Traffic Accident Map of Honolulu
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 1:37 AM :: 6152 Views :: Honolulu County, Hawaii Statistics
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This is an interesting and useful result of an unofficial public-private partnership....
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Thursday, December 29, 2016 |
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Visitor Spending Rose for Sixth Straight Month in November
By News Release @ 1:40 PM :: 4727 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Tourism
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Visitors to the Hawaiian Islands spent a total of $1.2 billion in November 2016, a gain of 5.6 percent versus last November....
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Friday, December 23, 2016 |
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Thursday, December 22, 2016 |
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10,000 Residents Flee Hawaii in Year—Population Growth Slumps
By Selected News Articles @ 7:02 PM :: 3998 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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With the high mainland out-migration tallies, Hawaii's population grew by an anemic 0.2 percent from 2015 to 2016....
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016 |
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Most Caring Cities in America—Honolulu Ranks 5th
By News Release @ 5:05 PM :: 3478 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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...data set ranges from “percentage of sheltered homeless persons” to “number of volunteering hours per capita” to “percentage of income donated to charity”....
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Saturday, December 17, 2016 |
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Adult Financial Literacy: Hawaii Ranks 4th
By News Release @ 12:01 AM :: 3813 Views :: Hawaii Statistics
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This means the electorate cannot be blamed for the government....
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Friday, December 16, 2016 |
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