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The legislation recognizes the unique cost-of-living challenges that hospitals in Hawai‘i and Alaska face. It would help perform outpatient care, such as emergency department visits and imaging services for enrolled older adults.
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The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm the first Native Hawaiian woman as a federal district court judge. Kauaʻi High alum Micah Smith was also confirmed as a federal judge this week
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The All Students Count Act would require the U.S. Department of Education, state education agencies, and school districts to gather and report data on the AANHPI students, which are often lumped into one group. The purpose of the bill is to ensure equitable resources go to impacted students in the education system. HPR's Cassie Ordonio reports.
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The portrait of the late Sen. Daniel K. Inouye is the first portrait of a person of color in the U.S. Senate’s leadership portrait series. Inouye represented Hawaiʻi in the U.S. Senate from 1963 until his death in 2012.
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More than $3.5 million will be available for small-scale food production in Hawaiʻi. The money will be distributed through the Micro-Grant for Food Security Program, a federal program meant to increase local food production and improve food production.
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About $3.6 billion is going into the Navy's shipyard, for upgrades including a new dry dock for Virginia-class and future fast-attack submarines, as well as updating 20-year-old temporary buildings. It represents the largest military construction project in DOD history.
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The State and the City and County of Honolulu have received $4 million in federal funding to update their climate action plan. The grant plans to help the state plan against climate pollution according to Dawn Chang, Chair of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources and co-chair of the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission.
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is investing $3.1 billion in the continuum of care programs. Whether or not some of that money can go to Hawaiʻi is yet to be determined. HPR's Sabrina Bodon has more.
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Honolulu Community Action Program will receive over $14.6 million to operate Oʻahu's Head Start and Early Head Start programs. They are aimed at providing early childhood education for children from low-income households.
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Hawaiʻi's congressional delegation has asked the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to correct the tax liability of families affected by the leak from the Navy Red Hill fuel storage facility in 2021.