Some Highlights From Alia's Reporting

Living Hawaii: Where Child Care Can Cost More Than College

After teacher Mai Hall realized that child care for her two children — an 18-month-old boy and a 10-year-old girl — would cost nearly as much as she would earn after taxes, she left the workforce to become a stay-at-home mom. Full-time care on Oahu for a toddler like...

Escaping Hawaii’s Community College Trap

Lauren Souza, a student at Windward Community College, is a young mother of three children with another on the way. Every weekday, the 25-year-old Kaneohe resident wakes up at 5:30 a.m. to take her 6-year-old twin sons to their respective schools. She makes the trek...