Editorial: State must act to fill fed aid gaps

A growing number of Hawaii’s children and families have slipped into poverty since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds: child poverty rose to 12% in 2022-2024, from 9% in 2019-2021. Distressingly, that number is poised to rise as federal offices escalate cuts and withhold funding that might otherwise buffer the neediest against poverty’s penalties of hunger, homelessness and poor health.

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