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How to fill Hawaii’s vacant health care jobs
When we talk about why so many Hawaii residents are leaving the state, we usually think about young people just starting out. But those aren’t the only ones we are losing. The “brain drain” also has hurt us when it comes to critical professions. For example, the...
How to give everybody a raise
Discussions about the minimum wage tend to overlook an obvious fact: Lowering the cost of living would make everyone’s pay go further, especially the less fortunate. How much further? Simply getting to the point where a dollar has its full spending power would be a...
Why Tom and Ycrem left Hawaii
The cost of life in Hawaii is just too much for us to raise a family there. We wanted to be able to provide our children with more opportunities than we could afford. I would love to return some day, even if only to visit. My children were born in Hawaii — my son in...
‘Leavin’ on a jet plane …’
The following is an excerpt from an article by Matt Walker that appeared July 11 on BadCredit.org, a website that seeks “to inform and educate Americans with bad credit, enabling better credit decisions and a brighter financial future.” ––––––––––––––––...
Why people are leaving ‘paradise’
The exodus continues. According to new figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of urban Honolulu declined in 2018 for the second year in a row, to 347,397, almost 1.3 percent less than the 2016 count of 351,883. People aren’t just leaving Honolulu....