#Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice
Community coalition celebrates passage of school meal expansion bill
The Hawaiʻi State Legislature gave final approval Wednesday to Senate Bill 1300, to expand free school meal access to keiki in the ALICE population over the next two school years.
Hawaiʻi set to offer nutrition support services to Medicaid patients
Medicaid patients may soon benefit from a five-year federal waiver that allows Hawaiʻi MedQUEST program to use Medicaid dollars to expand services with community-based food and nutrition organizations.
Conveyance tax can be an effective tool to address Hawaiʻi’s housing crisis
The public interest, nonprofit law firm, Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice says Hawaiʻi lawmakers have an opportunity to tailor the sales tax on real property so that it reinvests nonresident wealth into island communities through affordable housing development.
