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John Oliver Last Week Tonight - Hawaii
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Here it is from a fresh angle:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/...l-success/

Department of Data

Are Native Hawaiians finally getting ahead professionally?

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Column by Andrew Van Dam

August 30, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT


The quiet rainforest village of Volcano, Hawaii, presumably takes its name from Mauna Loa, which looms over the once artsy Big Island enclave as if it were the largest active volcano on Earth. Perhaps because it is.
You might know Volcano because of its proximity to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, but to us, it will always be the home of Susan Lehua Fernandez, a DoD reader who sent in a long and lyrical question we’ll boil down to a single query...


 … Over the past decade, from 2012 to 2022, the share of Hawaiians in management or professional roles has skyrocketed, increasing faster than any of 20-plus other groups for which we have comparable data….
What’s behind the boom? It’s not any single job. Or industry. Or age group. Or gender. Or marital status. It’s not remote work. Having eliminated all else, we were only too happy to zoom back out and consider geography. …
today, most Hawaiians (about 53 percent) live outside their ancestral archipelago….
Clark County, Nev., has more Hawaiians — both overall and as a share of the population — than any county outside Hawaii. Heck, it has more Hawaiians than Kauai. But Hawaiians there aren’t succeeding at much higher rates than the friends they left behind at home.
But in mapping their populations, we noticed Hawaiians spread far more widely across the mainland than other Pacific Islanders. And when we accounted for that breadth by comparing Hawaii to all other states combined, everything snapped into focus. We found that the rise in Hawaiians in management came entirely outside of Hawaii….
Furthermore, it wasn’t all Hawaiians outside of Hawaii who were climbing corporate ladders. The climbers were, specifically, Hawaiians born outside the state.
the trend… is starting to look to us like a classic immigrant story….
Folks who grow up in (Hawaii’s) system might have a limited view of where their lives can take them, Fernandez said. But to their kids raised on the mainland, almost any promotion seems possible….
read … Census data shows rise in Native Hawaiians' professional success

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RE: John Oliver Last Week Tonight - Hawaii - by Punatang - 08-31-2024, 08:17 PM

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