State Pensions on Path to Solvency; Challenges to COFA Immigrants; Making Drinking Water Out of Thin Air
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State Employee Retirement System Funding
By current estimates, the ERS is some 12-billion dollars short of meeting its liabilities. But the fund's Director has a plan to rectify that situation.
Intro Music: New Mate by FigurineYou Got Me by The Generationals
Outro Music: That's Life, tho (almost hate to say) by Kurt Vile
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COFA Update Legal Aid Society
Recent years have seen immigration issues politicized as never before. That uncertainty has affected Hawaii’s Micronesian community, Legal Aid Society deal with immigration issues on a regular basis.
Intro Music: Guava Jam by The Sunday Manoa
Outro Music: Ocean by John Butler
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Civil Beat Reality Check
Two hundred of the most violent and disruptive inmates from Nevada prisons are about to be shipped to Saguaro Correctional Center in Nevada.
Outro Music: Everyday by Rogue Wave
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Water Abundance X Prize
A team of young scientists from Hawaii is entering an international competition whose entrants are asked to pluck water from thin air. The competition for the Water Abundance X Prize is an effort to harness innovation and apply it to one of the world’s most critical problems before it’s too late.
Outro Music: Morning Dew - Radio Mix by Nora En Pura