Hawaii Statistics

ALEC-Laffer study measures the impact of state policies in 15 key areas....

Access, in this case is defined as, “the number of destinations reachable within a given travel time.”....

For the first time ever, this score empowers you to make informed decisions about the safety of your hospital care....

Meanwhile ... Hawaii Health Insurance Rates to Rise 12% to 21% Next Year....

Currently, six of the branch’s 11 positions remain vacant, and we found that the branch’s two remaining inspectors can only perform eight of the branch’s 15 key regulatory functions....

In Hawaii, the Fair Market Rent (FMR) for a two-bedroom apartment is $1,671.... 

Characteristics receiving the lowest excellent or good ratings were the availability of affordable quality housing (9%) .... 

Hawaii Does Not Have A Single Health Care Price Transparency Law....

Hawaii gets a greater percentage of its electricity from solar than any other state....

• Texas – 50.1%
• Oklahoma – 49.6%
• West Virginia – 46.8%
• Hawaii – 44.1%

...six criteria on which each state could be evaluated, based on six of the Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information....

Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promoting their drugs....

We analyzed the data to bring you a list of the ten absolute worst U.S. cities to drive a car according to the following three questions....

Between 2011 and 2012 Hawaii jumped from 44th to 1st in “Work Environment” but fell from 4th to 14th  in “Basic Access"....

SSI, SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, or other government assistance....

About 38 percent of all nursing homes in Hawaii earned an overall five-star rating....

Here is a point-by-point comparison of the White House numbers for Hawaii and Sen. Harkin’s numbers for Hawaii. 

We’re giving you a sneak peek of AFP’s Congressional Scorecard....

Selected details from SunshineReview.org review of State, County, and DoE websites....

It is also possible that LGBT adults make conscious choices to reside in certain states rather than others....

...Colleen Hanabusa underperformed Obama by the most of any incumbent in the nation....

...it appears that over 301,000 government record requests were routinely fulfilled by the reporting agencies....

Alaska and Hawaii ranked second and third, respectively, with about 28% of each state's workers employed by government....

...advocates could potentially use these new data from the Department of Education to support a civil rights complaint....

Highest rate of nonvoting due to registration or absentee ballot problems: Hawaii was the only state with an increase in the rate of registration and absentee voting problems of more than 1 percent between 2008-2010.

Minnesota (-8) and Hawaii (-9)  -- the first time since Gallup initiated daily tracking in 2008 that confidence has been this close to crossing into positive territory in any of the 50 states. 

Hawaii’s law still needs significant improvement in several areas, including beefing up the requirements for charter application....

Global Metro Monitor update of the Brookings Institution. Yet another non-flattering economic statistic....

Even in Honolulu, housing affordability has deteriorated markedly, with the Median Multiple rising 0.6 points in just the last year. Honolulu was less affordable than all but Hong Kong and Vancouver...

Residents of Hawaii, along with those living in the District of Columbia, were most likely to approve of President Barack Obama in 2012, according to an analysis of Gallup Daily tracking for the year....

State ranks third lowest in the country for adult smoking and second lowest for youth tobacco use....

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Hawaii Renewable Energy Projects Directory....

Hundreds of thousands of consumers have their health insurance applications declined each year according to a 2010 congressional study....

• Queens: 54 patients waiting
• Maui Memorial: 41 patients waiting
• Kuakini Hospital: 20 patients waiting

"Hawaii is making progress on strengthening its education policies" -- StudentsFirst

Overall prevalence of self-reported falling asleep while driving during the previous 30 days was 4.2%. State-level prevalence ranged from 2.5% in Oregon to 6.1% in Texas (Hawaii was 2nd at 5.7%).