Take out the rich non-natives and federal employees/contractors and Hawaii is a poor state. The per capita income does not account for the very high cost of liv

Take out the rich non-natives and federal employees/contractors and Hawaii is a poor state. The per capita income does not account for the very high cost of living there. Tourist dollars tend towards maintaining that industry and the state just doesn’t have the funds to support large infrastructure projects without heavy federal funding (water, power, ports, roads, airports, IT backbone). Many of islands run on shoestring budgets.