Hawaii Statistics

...The report uses 12 key metrics – ranging from average annual wages and salary disparities to patient population size and state medical board punitiveness to rank each of the 50 states....

...In Alaska and Hawaii, unauthorized immigrants from the Philippines are the largest group....

...Assuming affirmative resolution of ongoing entitlement battles for Hoopili and Koa Ridge, single-family building will begin to pick up over the next two years....

The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program helps communities identify and implement solutions that make it easier for people to be healthy....

...the least wealthy states tend to be those receiving the most federal support....

​The College and Career Indicators Report​ (CCRI) released today by Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education....

Our review covered 150 outstanding audit recommendations from 2004 to 2013....

Only California (44%) has more households spending at least 30% of their income on housing....

...subsidy programs assessed in each state....

This translates to an additional $191.4 million in anticipated revenues to the state general fund for fiscal biennium 2016-17....

...county and state salary and overtime records, as well as retirement, health insurance, budgetary, and other data....

Only eight states saw increases under 15 percent: New York, Virginia, Mississippi, North Dakota, Hawaii, Maine, Connecticut and West Virginia....

...2015 Edition of Facts and Figures: How Does Your State Compare?...

...The loss of an arm, for example, is worth up to $48,840 in Alabama, $193,950 in Ohio and $439,858 in Illinois....

...the economy is still not creating as many new firms as it did before the recession....

...The data set ranges from median earnings for female workers to women’s preventive health care....

Evangelical Protestants are becoming less white....

...Japanese arrivals decreased 4.9 percent to 110,969 visitors....

The fasted growing type of pass-through business is the S corporation....

Church attendance provides ties that bind members to their communities, and research shows that at the individual level, those who are most religious have higher well-being than those who are less religious....

Honolulu Ranks 42nd Overall (tied with Irving, TX): 77th for 'Income Diversity' and 101st for 'Educational Diversity'....

Hawaii and Colorado are the only states to finish in the top 10 every year since 2008....

...HB1307, introduced by Rep Kaniela Ing, raises income taxes on middle class families by 12%....

What is missing on the conservative side is leadership....

...the strengthening US dollar is driving down Hawaiian’s projected unit revenues by 3.5% to 6.5%....

The President’s budget has a proposed increase in the federal capital gains tax rate....

...A single filer earning Hawaii's median income of $61,408 can expect to pay $4,043.88 in state income taxes, the highest dollar amount of any state, or 6.59% of his income....

Sole proprietorships, S corporations, limited liability companies (LLCs)....

...Hawaii has 49 different CON laws, 3rd highest in USA....

Housing / homelessness is now the new hot button concern, increasing from 6% to 17% over the past year, overtaking Education as well as infrastructure, covering roads and mass transit....

...21 key metrics, ranging from the median household income gap to the unemployment rate gap....

...In fiscal year 2013-2014, Hawaii’s captive insurers wrote more than $2.85 billion in premium volume and generated more than $20 million in economic benefits to Hawaii....

...a new state-by-state comparison puts Hawaii as #1 in terms of the gap between the income residents earn and the cost of housing....

... 8,282,680 visitors came to the Hawaiian Islands in 2014, exceeding the 2013 record of 8,174,461 visitors by 1.3 percent ....

...Hawai‘i has the largest gap in the nation between residents’ income and housing costs, ranking dead last....

Pass-through businesses pay a significant role in the US economy. They account for 95 percent of all businesses, more than 60 percent of all business income, and more than 50 percent of all employment....

...Correcting this problem and allowing businesses to deduct the full cost in the first year is known as “full expensing”....

...the share of all income held by the top 1% is on a three-decade upswing....

Making excuses for price-gouging rail contractors, HART Director Daniel Grabauskas points to the “red-hot construction market” as the cause for HART cost overruns....

...the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) has released a report. ranking the states in terms of how progressive their tax systems are....

Hawaii union membership slips from 22.1% in 2013 to 21.8% in 2014 ....

Delaware (49.5 percent) and Hawaii (48 percent) are the only states with pass-through employment less than 50% share of total private sector employment....

Hawaii ranks 4th with 32,829 millionaire households out of 473,750 total households = 6.93%....

Nationally, bed bug business increased 18 percent last year with nearly half of cities showing a rise in bed bug treatments....

In 2014, Mississippi had the lowest number of homeless people per 100,000, as it did for the previous three years....

The cost of tobacco for every smoker is $1,029,646 over a lifetime....

This annual resource, dubbed “the playbook” of model legislation, combines more than 50 pieces of our model legislation, expert analysis, and 50 state report cards into a single nonpartisan guide for legislators....

"...the trends of the last decade will be prologue for a nation not at risk, but a nation in decline.…"