It’s time local political leaders begin making hard decisions to resolve this growing problem

Lawmakers can fix this injustice in the coming legislative session.

Hawaii is doing a miserable job of collecting child support, which has a ruinous effect on deeply poor families, especially their children.

Diet choices and smoking certainly can cause health problems. But social and economic factors are the largest influences on an individual’s health.

The Legislature is poised to update a credit measure that hasn’t been addressed in 35 years and amounts to only $19 a year in today’s money.

Hawaii’s heavily regressive tax system pushes the impoverished down, while simultaneously offering them a hand up.

Increasing income even in small amounts for low-income families can relieve some toxic stress for children in those households and have lasting benefit.