Hawaii Statistics

...Kauai’s economy only returned to pre-Iniki levels 7-8 years after the storm....

...just 34% of spending, compared with 54% nationally....

...2014 April General Excise Tax (GET) collections are still down compared to the same month last year, although slightly improved on March 2014....

...WalletHub used data from 47 states to construct a health-related return on investment metric....

...Honolulu performed better through the recession than most other major American cities. Unfortunately, Honolulu’s recovery was not as impressive....

...Overall non-Medicaid expansion states improved their median INDEX score by 0.6% while Medicaid expansion states median INDEX scores declined by (0.80%)....

...The math? Simple. The FY2013 state expenditure divided by the state's 2013 GDP....

“In 2013, we posted an ending balance of $844 million. We have now posted a positive ending balance of $664.8 million for 2014...."

...Can anything be in worse condition than unfunded government pensions? Unfortunately, yes – and it’s called OPEB....

State figures show net enrollment increased 12 percent between Oct. 1 and June 30....

...lack of community-based resources to support patients with underlying mentally illness in managing their other medical conditions....

The High Cost of Big Labor looks at the economic impact of labor policies on U.S. states....

Hawai‘i ranks 25th out of 50 states on overall child well-being....

A few years ago, a Princeton prof and a renowned psychologist found that income of $75,000 a year is the threshold for daily happiness....

Many people in Hawaii already had health insurance because of a 1976 Hawaii Prepaid Healthcare law....

...ranked first in percentage of households without children....

Only five states—Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Vermont— had no wiretap requests during 2013....

Hawaii's mounting state debt now represents $41,300 per taxpayer, the second highest in the country....

WalletHub -- 2014's Most & Least Energy-Expensive States.

By the end of the 1930s, 22 states had implemented a sales tax....

Approximately 60 percent of the 7.1 million people receiving public mental health services nationwide want to work....

...rural roads and bridges in Hawaii have significant deficiencies and a high rate of traffic fatalities....

26,010 individuals enrolled in Medicaid between Summer 2013 and April 2014....

Hawaii Appleseed has released a report, “Hawai‘i’s Affordable Housing Crisis: The High Cost of Our Affordable Housing Shortfall,”....

...the administration “performing a $4 billion magic trick”....

...General Excise Tax collections for the first quarter of 2014 are down 4.6% in comparison to last year....

The old saying "nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there" seems to sum up employment conditions in Hawaii....

To find out how patriotic each state was, we first made a list of criteria that we considered to be pretty indicative of proud Americans....

...For all OPR combined, the prescribing rate in Alabama was 2.7 times the rate in Hawaii....

This year, the state says project enrollment is about 10,500. Last year, enrollment was about 16,600....

IDEA mandates that the Department must take specific actions, which can include requiring the state to prepare a corrective action plan, enter into a compliance agreement or, ultimately, withholding a portion of the state’s funding....

The top districts for paying teachers with a bachelor’s degree and five years of experience are Chicago ($62,046), New York ($52,278), Hawaii ($50,728)....

...principals’ predictions are dismal partially because tests for the newly implemented Common Core curriculum will be more rigorous....

No other VA site is over 100 days, the next-worst is Fayetteville, NC with a 91-day wait time for new patients....

The state with the lowest gun death rate in the nation was Rhode Island, followed by Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and New Jersey....

Statewide, 16.9% of public HS students had seriously considered attempting suicide during the 12 months before the survey....

Corruption increases and distorts spending by U.S. states....

The categories in this report were chosen as those most likely to be considered by site selection experts for manufacturing and logistics firms....

...Now every state has an income tax except for Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. Alaska is notable in that it is the only state to repeal an existing income tax....

The income gap between rich and poor tends to be wider in blue states than in red states....

...the share of income going to the “Dominant Class” increases while the share going to the “Lower Class” decreases steadily from the mid 1950s up to the present....

Nearly one in five of Hawaii’s waitlisted patients — that is, those remaining in a hospital after the need for acute care ceases — have an infectious disease....

...Hawaii ranks 49th among all states in accessing SNAP benefits with one out of every three eligible individuals not enrolled....

California is in 1st place with the highest rate of 52.89 cents per gallon, and is followed closely by New York (49.86 cents/gallon), Connecticut (49.3 cents/gallon), and Hawaii (48.05 cents/gallon)....

...Vanguard derived its findings by developing special software to scour online reviews on Google+ and Yelp.com websites of 46,300 individual doctors....

...16.0 percent of seniors with a college education are physically inactive compared to 50.2 percent of seniors with less than a high school education....

...while older residents age 65+ comprise 13.7 percent of our population, they accounted for nearly 42 percent of pedestrian fatalities across Hawaii....

Former U.S. Rep. Charles Djou, D-Hawaii, noted Hawaii’s enrollment cost is 26 times the national average, 2 1/2 times the cost for the second most expensive state....