Poverty Is A Statewide Epidemic
“We know that rents jumped by 45 percent between 2005 and 2015, while the average wage increased by only 21 percent. It is not reasonable to expect hardworking people to somehow magically make up the difference from their limited resources. Against this backdrop of high rents and low wages it is no surprise that research shows that the cost of living in Hawaii is 60 percent higher than the national average.”