Hawaii Statistics

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....

...In its second quarter 2014 statistics and economic report, the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT) projects stable economic growth in 2014 and beyond....

Ninety-five percent of Hawaii's residents consider the city or area in which they live to be a good place for racial and ethnic minorities, earning the Aloha State the top spot in Gallup's 50-state ranking....

...data on state-funded prekindergarten during the 2012-2013 school year....

Excluding Hawaii and the District of Columbia, which were outliers, the state Exchange with the highest cost-per-enrollee was Massachusetts, at $5,681. Hawaii’s cost-per-enrollee was 32 times California’s....

The Hawai‘i Health Connector Hawai‘i concluded its first open enrollment period, which included a grace period that ended on April 30, with 9,785 enrollees....

...and 32,209 more enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP through the end of March 2014, compared to enrollment before the Marketplace opened last October....

The top-performing states—Minnesota, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Hawaii—lead the nation across most dimensions of care, and have done so over time....

...analysis from The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy shows that teen childbearing in Hawaii cost taxpayers at least $32 million in 2010....

This study analyzes the effects of the resulting changes at the individual employee level ....

... Queens, Pali Momi, Straub, and Moanalua all scored 'A' ....

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 38,978 adults aged 18 years or older from 6 states: Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Wisconsin....

Hawaii has 144 structurally deficient bridges....

...residents in Hawaii took a dim view of their own schools, with only 46% ranking them as excellent or good....

586 sign-ups since March 31, 2014 ....

It includes topics such as physical and emotional health, healthy behaviors, work environment, social and community factors, financial security, and access to necessities such as food, shelter, and healthcare....

Hawaii citizens have earned enough for the year's tax bill - one day later than last year....

New report ranks Hawaii 36th in economic outlook and 17th in economic performance....

Hawaii has much room to improve. It scores poorly on all three dimensions of freedom....