Entries for 'UHERO'

... Hawaii led the nation with the highest percentage of its civilian labor force unemployed for 15 weeks or longer 5.3% ....

... As business activity contracted, the state quickly shed more than 150,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate jumped from 2% to 22% ....

... A potential cause of the recent virus spread is the decline in the share of people staying at home and a rise in gatherings ....

... Falling virus counts and vaccination progress set the stage for a strengthening visitor industry recovery ....

... The number of gambling measures introduced in the legislature rose whenever the state government encountered money problems ....

... ADC’s emphasis on land acquisition has made it a costly, disorganized and ineffective program while the state and counties have failed to fulfill their promises to landowners participating in the IAL program ....

... UHERO second quarterly survey of rental property owners and managers ....

... CLUE: There is no shortage of private capital available for tech startups.  If your tech startup needs government funds it is fake ....

...more free money from the sky....

... Annual Hawaii Forecast With Global Outlook: Mainland COVID-19 surge means a bleak winter, but vaccines promise 2021 growth ....

...The data comes from the firm Safegraph, which collects cellular location data from the apps that run in the background of many people’s smartphones....

...for every dollar the University saves with on-campus (solar) investments, other customers will pay $1.15 more -- UHERO.....

... because the state GDP data is released with a three-month lag and undergoes many revisions after its release ....

... Prior to COVID-19, our respondents reported a roughly 4% vacancy rate .... In August, however, this number jumped to 9% ....

...UHERO report illustrated a dark forecast—worse than the aftermath of 9/11—for travel and tourism in Hawaiʻi, across the U.S. and around the world....

...Our baseline forecast now sees meaningful economic recovery delayed until the middle of next year, and an attenuated recovery period thereafter....

...How Many Visitors Are Coming to Hawaii During this Pandemic? Making Sense of Hawaii’s Visitor Arrival Data....

...With the exception of jobs in information technology and other services, no industry category saw a meaningful increase from the devastating April 2020 job numbers....

...due to the increased difficulty of navigating a trans-Pacific move. There is also fear of a spike in COVID-19 cases in states such as California and Texas....

...the state’s total employment rate, as well as its unemployment rate, will not return to its pre-pandemic level until 2029....

...A grim financial outlook is on the horizon for the state of Hawaiʻi due to the impact of COVID-19....

...the augmented unemployment payments have done a fairly good job  preventing the worst from happening so far. But that program is set to expire August 1....

...recommend that individuals who clear a temperature and symptom screening, and a COVID-19 test in their departure city will not be required to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival to Hawaiʻi....

...The question is what that reopening will look like, how long it will take, and what the legacy of COVID-19 will be for the Hawaii economy....

...claims are clustered in zip codes where the tourism industry is a particularly important source of employment....

...total job reductions between January and April in Honolulu county were 34% of full-time jobs and 41% of part-time. These numbers were much higher on Hawaii (50% and 67%), Maui (69% and 68%), and Kauai (56% and 62%)....

...The unprecedented pause in economic activity has had a profoundly negative impact on Hawaii....

...Hawai‘i Tourism Authority surveys found resident attitudes about tourism becoming more negative as the number of visitors increased....

...COVID-19’s Uneven Impact on Businesses and Workers: Results from a UHERO-Chamber of Commerce Hawaii Survey....

...tax revenue declines that could easily top 15-20% will almost certainly require reductions in some public programs....

...Monday, April 20, 2020 5:30pm – 6:30pm....

...77% of Hawaii's Economy Isn't Tourism; Policymakers Can Take Steps To Reopen It....

...HTA is a destination management organization and not strictly a destination marketing organization....

...Herd Immunity or Containment through Test and Trace?....

...the job count will average 11% lower than 2019 for the year as a whole, and real income will be more than 3% lower. Visitor arrivals for the year will be down an astounding 41%....

...Hawaii needs to quickly adopt and implement a plan to control and then halt the spread of the coronavirus....

...social distancing has significant economic impacts....

...In the past two weeks, things have changed markedly, and a SARS-type V-shaped path is now too optimistic.... 

...Hawaii citizens can count on seeing a slew of bills introduced to raise taxes on somebody....

...While visitor arrivals racked up another record year in 2019, real visitor spending fell last year as international spending languished. And now the coronavirus rears its ugly head....

...a case for the Hawaii community to focus on “the future fiscal capacity of Hawaii state and local governments.”....

...after adjusting for Hawaii’s high prices, the purchasing power of income per person was the fourth lowest in the nation....

...The state’s population has been declining for the past three years, in part because of outward migration....

...the costs associated with the Jones Act are empirically important and should be taken into account by policy makers....

... NELHA Host Park generates over $100M annually ....

...Hawaii Construction Forecast....

...population decline and vacation rental crackdown place economy at risk....

...In Gallup’s annual well-being index, Hawaii occupied the #1 spot among US states for six out of the past 10 years....

...UHERO examines the economic implications of the Jones Act....

...each has seen a falloff in tourism activity and a slowing of employment growth in a number of sectors....