Source: Maui Time, Maui News, Best of Maui, Maui Activities

By%20the%20Numbers
Former Supintendent Hamamoto Goes Private and Hawaii Residents Stay Happy

by Jacob Shafer

February 18, 2010

1

Hawaii’s rank among the 50 states in a “Well-Being Index” that measures “how respondents are faring in all aspects of their lives; physically, emotionally, socially and professionally”

6.9 percent

Hawaii’s unemployment rate, more than 3 percent below the national average

41

Days that elapsed between former Superintendent Pat Hamamoto’s “retirement” and the announcement this week that she accepted a job as principal of a private boys school on Oahu

115

Days that have elapsed, as of this writing, since Hawaii’s public schools implemented “furlough Fridays”

Sources: Healthways/Gallup, Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Hawaii Department of Education, Pacific Business News