Hawaii Statistics

...Hawaii’s unfunded liabilities for infrastructure and public health benefits have increased so far this year to $97 billion....

... Civic participation is a key ingredient of a well-functioning democracy ....

... UH Manoa’s default rate was 3.3% compared to 9.7% nationally ....

...‘Heavy’ pesticide exposure linked to cardiovascular disease?  Flawed study raises ‘troubling’ questions about public health research....

... Hawaii 2020 unemployment claims surpass 380,000 ....

...Today’s total response rate report on the 2020 Census website shows that 99.9% of Hawaiʻi households have been enumerated, one of the top states in the country.... 

...Alaska has far fewer COVID restrictions, yet a lower death rate....

...Hawaii has recovered just 13% of the jobs lost since the start of the pandemic....

...ACUF reviewed selected pieces of legislation voted on in both the Hawaii Senate and House to produce average scores of each chamber as well as individual scores for each sitting member....

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

...Newly released voter assistance tool scores HI politicians’ success at working across the aisle....

...2020’s Best & Worst Cities for People with Disabilities....

...In August 2020, a total of 22,344 visitors traveled to Hawaii by air service compared to 926,417 visitors during the same month a year ago....

...Hawaii lost the highest percentage (-3.5 percent, -1,300 jobs) of construction jobs for the month....

...Jobs declined by 105,200 over-the-year....

...Survey in Hawaii Finds: 55% Believe Something Like the Holocaust Could Happen Again; 65% Cannot Identify How Many Jews Were Killed During the Holocaust; 55% Cannot Name a Concentration Camp, Death Camp, or Ghetto....

...Hawaii is the most restrictive state in USA....

...National healthcare scorecard: Where does your state rank?....

...Hawaii was the second-most-dependent state on the additional $600 in unemployment benefits that expired at the end of July.....

...even if we develop an effective vaccine to combat the pandemic, it will have a reduced impact if people don’t choose to get it....

...Hawaii's public and charter schools combined enrollment for school year 2020-21 totals 174,704 students, compared to 179,331 last year, a difference of 2.6 percent....

...in Honolulu, the 2016 Porsche Cayenne S e-Hybrid is only 2mpg better than the vehicular embodiment of excess--the 2010 Hummer H3....

...Sharecare and Boston University School of Public Health launch Community Well-Being Index....

...Hawaii and Washington State have the highest estate tax top rates in the nation at 20 percent....

... according to the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings released on September 2 ....

...Hawaii shows the largest disparity in weekly teacher interactions between more-educated and less-educated households. The gap for the nation is roughly 8%, while the gap for Hawaii is nearly 54%....

...Almost every state spends more on highways than they collect in dedicated revenue from federal, state, and local sources. The only exceptions are Hawaii, Idaho, and Tennessee....

...criminals are being released from jails where there is no COVID....

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

“We are still experiencing a significant increase of workers still attached to an employer being fully released from employment."

...In July, a total of 22,562 visitors traveled to Hawaii by air service compared to 995,210 visitors during the same period a year ago.... 

...2020’s Best & Worst Community Colleges....

...and 30.6 percent of middle school students....

...Pacific Islanders other than Native Hawaiians have ten times the infection rate of all other ethnic groups in Hawai‘i....

... The unemployment rate would have been much higher except that there were nearly 30,000 fewer people in the labor force than a year ago ....

...but the Big Island is much more affordable....

... Hawaii 5th largest quarterly increase in overall delinquency rate ....

...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....

...For the first time since 2002, Hawaii Democrat candidates will be on the ballot in the General Election challenging every single sitting Republican incumbent legislator....

...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....

...2020’s Best & Worst States for Health Care....

...What is the Real Value of $100 in Your State?....

...The Hawaii Department of Health urges the government to remove safeguards....

... State and Local taxes add $0.4628 per gallon -- not counting GE Tax .... 

...States Whose Unemployment Rates Are Bouncing Back Most....

...individuals are classified as employed, unemployed, or not in the labor force based on questions about their activities during the survey reference week (June 7th through June 13th)....

...Pass-through businesses, such as sole proprietorships, S corporations, and partnerships, make up a majority of businesses in the United States....

...In Hawaii, the Fair Market Rent (FMR) for a two-bedroom apartment is $2,015—the highest in USA....

...Employment–population ratio, Hawaii 2nd lowest in USA....

...2020’s Most & Least Energy-Expensive States....