Hawaii’s economy offered a mixed bag of growth in the fourth quarter of 2018. Employment declined 1.4% but the unemployment rate was a healthy 2.3%. Year-over-year, the economy has shed 9,300 jobs, and annual job gains have been negative for the past three months.
On the Big Island, employment growth dropped 2.6% and has been negative for the past five months. That said, there are 85,800...
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