Manufactured homes are a cheap, decent solution to ease our intolerable housing and homeless crises.

Hawaii residents don’t earn enough money to offset expensive rent, student loans and consumer debt.

Bills that have sailed through the Legislature so far would boost taxes on the wealthy to pay for tax breaks for low-income families.

Renters in Hawaii are continuing to pay more than anywhere else in the country for their living spaces, according to new Census data.

Unemployed college graduates, Hawaii wants you! The islands need you! And they’ll pay a lot for you! Or so the viral story goes — and goes.

Unemployment is very low but that hasn’t worked out to more money in workers’ pockets.

The savvy little food chain may no longer be the most popular market on the mainland, but it could be in the islands.

Hawaii is in the top third nationally in financial savvy, but we lead the nation in the percentage of people who overspend.

Residents’ paychecks may imply they’re middle class, but many endure cost-of-living pressures commonly associated with poverty.

It may seem counterintuitive, but our low property tax rates in the islands add to our high cost of living.