Student Voices: Why Local Opportunity Matters

The federal poverty level for a family of four in Hawaiʻi is just under $36,000 — but the actual household survival budget is closer to $107,795.

Learn more about the science, psychology, and sociology behind why humans love music and how our brains process it.

In a Civil Beat op-ed, Harvey Stone argues that training programs on Hawaiʻi Island will fall short if the workers they produce can’t afford to live here, and calls for workforce housing to be part of economic development planning.

State economists foresee a demographic turning point a decade from now. A demographer in Hilo has found that for Hawaiʻi Island, that future is already here.