Hawaii's Problems
Jason Cheers: People that are addressing these issues in our local communities are politicians like Kaniela Ing. His campaign speaks out about resistance to colonialism in Hawaiʻi and how that deeply is rooted in how much poverty affects Hawaiʻi today, especially in the Native Hawaiian population. Ever since the plantation industry first arrived in Hawaiʻi, labor issues started increasing. At first, Hawaiʻiʻs labor started to organize along by race, until plantation workers started slowly gaining power and influence in the plantation world. This is important because Native Hawaiian people are some of the most poverty-ridden races in Hawaiʻi, despite this being on our own lands.
People like Ing use Hawaiʻiʻs dark past as a way to come up with messages and solutions that involve people of all oppressed races, ethnicities, and nationalities can come together to defeat people like the missionary planter class that were prevalent in the days of the plantation. Although Ing and many others push for Hawaiʻiʻs people to get better jobs and start taking back the economy, Hawaiʻi still has the lowest employment rate in the country. Many residents work two to four jobs just to get by. Hawaiʻi has the highest cost of living in the country and has the ninth highest rate of poverty. Native Hawaiians are targeted the most in these statistics as we are also the most disproportionately incarcerated racial group in Hawaiʻi. Despite making up 21% of people in Hawaiʻi, over 40% of our inmates are Native Hawaiian. |
Makia Kukahiko: Poverty definitely impacts our ʻāina in our local community. Thousands of people living in Hawaii are in poverty. Many cannot make a stable source of money and thus cannot afford a house. Because of how expensive everything is in Hawaii many families and people can’t even afford to live here which is just sad. Even the people with homes struggle to pay rent. So much so that they can’t save up any money and if something goes wrong like their car breaks down they'll be in debt. Which could lead them to homelessness. Some people even have job’s and still can’t afford homes. With such a high cost of living even with a job they can’t afford homes. But so many are forced to live here as they cannot afford plane tickets or they simply just don’t want to leave their island. Many of the people in poverty are actually Hawaiians. Which is really sad as our own people can’t even afford to live on their land. Even with Hawaiian homes many people still struggle. Many of the homeless people are also people that are sent here from the Mainland because of the harsh environment. Over 30% of men living in Hawaii are unemployed. Even worse 40% of women in Hawaii are unemployed. 7.1% of families live in poverty and 10.2% of individuals live in poverty. 1 in 6 children live in poverty as well. This can be supported by the flipped lecture about the French Revolution.
This can be supported by that flipped lecture about the French Revolution. This can be supported by the flipped lecture about the French revolution because it has many similarities to the issue in Hawaii. When the Americans came to Hawaii and set up their plantations they basically enslaved the Hawaiins. They were treated poorly, lived in poor conditions, and didn’t even get paid that much. But so many Hawaiians were forced to work for these plantations so they could eat. In the French Revolution flipped lecture the situation is very similar. The peasants or the people at the bottom of the social hierarchy were very mistreated as well. They would grow crops and tend to animals working laboriously for hours everyday just to get taxed by the higher up’s. Who did nothing and just spent all the money even when the country was broke. The peasant’s after a while grew tired of this and that's how the French Revolution started. Poverty in Hawaii is a real problem and many people are affected by it. If something isn’t done about it many more people living in Hawaii could also fall under poverty. |
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Source 1 (Image 1):
Teague, C. (2018, June 21). Rep. Kaniela Ing Fined $15,000 For Campaign Spending Violations. Honolulu Civil Beat. https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/06/rep-kaniela-ing-fined-15000-for-campaign-spending-violations/.
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Contributors. (2021, July 9). Karl Marx. Retrieved July 15, 2021, from Wikipedia website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2016/01/10/hawaii-news/special-report-hawaiians-at-risk-keiki-locked-in-cycle-of-foster-care-system/
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Hofschneider, A. (2018, September 20). Poverty Persists Among Hawaiians Despite Low Unemployment. Honolulu Civil Beat. https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/09/poverty-persists-among-hawaiians-despite-low-unemployment/.
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Prest, W. J. (2010, August 9). The French Revolution, Locke and Rousseau. Soapboxie. https://soapboxie.com/government/The-French-Revolution-Locke-and-Rousseau.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Economy of Hawaii. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Hawaii-state/Economy.
Source 1 (Image 1):
Teague, C. (2018, June 21). Rep. Kaniela Ing Fined $15,000 For Campaign Spending Violations. Honolulu Civil Beat. https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/06/rep-kaniela-ing-fined-15000-for-campaign-spending-violations/.
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Contributors. (2021, July 9). Karl Marx. Retrieved July 15, 2021, from Wikipedia website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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https://www.staradvertiser.com/2016/01/10/hawaii-news/special-report-hawaiians-at-risk-keiki-locked-in-cycle-of-foster-care-system/
Source 4 (Image 3):
Hofschneider, A. (2018, September 20). Poverty Persists Among Hawaiians Despite Low Unemployment. Honolulu Civil Beat. https://www.civilbeat.org/2018/09/poverty-persists-among-hawaiians-despite-low-unemployment/.
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Prest, W. J. (2010, August 9). The French Revolution, Locke and Rousseau. Soapboxie. https://soapboxie.com/government/The-French-Revolution-Locke-and-Rousseau.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, inc. (n.d.). Economy of Hawaii. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/place/Hawaii-state/Economy.
Hawaiʻi Problems Globally & Locally
Makia Kukahiko: Poverty plays a huge role in the current issues happening in Asia. Many factors actually make most people in Asia poor. First of all, Asia is way over populated. With 60% of the world's population residing in Asia. That's a crazy amount! This is bad because the larger your population the more resources you need to sustain that population. So many people end up poor because of the scarcity of resources in Asia. Another issue Asia has that causes poverty is Education. About 30% of adults in south and west Asia are illiterate. About ⅓ of students in primary schools lack basic numeric and literacy skills.
Which is essential for further education and getting a well paying job. As I mentioned before, poverty most definitely comes into play in current issues in Hawaii. This plays a role in Hawaii because the cost of living is so high leading to people not having homes or just being in poverty. Most if not all of Hawaii’s goods are imported from around the world so this marks up the prices even higher. This is the main cause of why everything is so expensive in Hawaii. People coming into Hawaii and buying land also makes homes a lot more difficult to get and leads to poverty. The sad thing about poverty in Hawaii is that the Hawaiian people on their own land are living in poverty. Which is really sad and just shows how bad it is here. There are some things that can help reduce poverty that i've found. One thing we can do is create more jobs. If more well paying jobs are more available then that means less people in poverty. Although this may be a little difficult as we can’t just magically create jobs. It has to be people that own businesses and they might not want to create more jobs to save money. Another way to help solve poverty is to increase the minimum wage. This will mean that anyone could have a home or at least not be in poverty. Although this does raise some issues as well. Small businesses may struggle to pay minimum wage to all workers and may cut some people or just not be able to stay in business which could further make poverty worse. In Hawaii these solutions may also work. One thing I would suggest is maybe having a different source of income? Having tourism as our main source of income is great and all but it makes tourist want to live here and they take up homes that Hawaiians could've had. |
Jason Cheers: The goal of no poverty does play a giant role in whatʻs happening with the current Covid crisis in India right now. Because the government isnʻt really responding to itʻs peopleʻs cries, civilians are left with nowhere to go but wait on the streets to be treated for medical care. And most of the time, this medical care never comes. People are dying out in the streets of India. The hospitals are trying, but they are greatly overwhelmed and underfunded by the state to continue to supply itʻs patients with the best quality healthcare they can provide.
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In Hawaiʻi, poverty is mainly prevalent among itʻs local population, specifically the native Hawaiian people. The people of color living in Hawaiʻi (Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, Asians) currently are the ones being pushed to the side and neglected while the state government caters to itʻs tourist population. Solutions for the problems can only come politically, because people rely so much on the government, and right now the government in India and Hawaiʻi arenʻt listening to the pleading of the people. The government has the resources and technology to help out everyone, but they just arenʻt implementing it. This is because it's being used towards foreigners, and we just canʻt compete with them. |
Hawaii has highest homeless per capita rate in nation. (2021). Retrieved July 20, 2021, from Kitv.com website: https://www.kitv.com/story/30472547/hawaii-has-highest-homeless-per-capita-rate-in-nation
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By HNN Staff Container: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com Publisher: KHNL/KGMB Year: 2019 URL: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/05/23/considered-low-income-one-person-honolulu-according-hud/
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Naina Bajekal. (2021, April 29). India’s COVID-19 Crisis Is Spiraling Out of Control. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way. Retrieved July 20, 2021, from Time website: https://time.com/5964796/india-covid-19-failure/
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Hawaii has highest homeless per capita rate in nation. (2021). Retrieved July 20, 2021, from Kitv.com website: https://www.kitv.com/story/30472547/hawaii-has-highest-homeless-per-capita-rate-in-nation
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The Night the Oxygen Ran Out. (2021). The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/world/asia/india-coronavirus-oxygen.html
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By Mark Owuor Otieno Container: WorldAtlas Publisher: WorldAtlas Year: 2018 URL: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-poorest-countries-in-south-asia.html
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By HNN Staff Container: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com Publisher: KHNL/KGMB Year: 2019 URL: https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/05/23/considered-low-income-one-person-honolulu-according-hud/
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Naina Bajekal. (2021, April 29). India’s COVID-19 Crisis Is Spiraling Out of Control. It Didn’t Have to Be This Way. Retrieved July 20, 2021, from Time website: https://time.com/5964796/india-covid-19-failure/
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Hawaii has highest homeless per capita rate in nation. (2021). Retrieved July 20, 2021, from Kitv.com website: https://www.kitv.com/story/30472547/hawaii-has-highest-homeless-per-capita-rate-in-nation
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The Night the Oxygen Ran Out. (2021). The New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/world/asia/india-coronavirus-oxygen.html