Editorial: More to do as residents return to Hawaii | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

EDITORIAL: More to do as residents return to Hawaii

Hawaii has been subjected to a series of earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting challenges in this century — a Great Recession, COVID-19, the Lahaina wildfire, federal turmoil. Each causes lasting ripple effects, and one of those effects has been an outflow of Hawaii-born people from the state. That could be changing. Though too soon to know if it’s a lasting trend, Census data indicates that in 2023, 12,100 Hawaii-born people ages 25 to 44 — prime…

Editorial: More to do as residents return to Hawaii | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Hawaii has been subjected to a series of earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting challenges in this century — a Great Recession, COVID-19, the Lahaina wildfire, federal turmoil. Each causes lasting ripple effects, and one of those effects has been an outflow of Hawaii-born people from the state.