One town has 35% unemployment, higher than the peak of the Great Depression.
The state’s labor department says the delay is largely due to outdated technology and a historic number of claims.Peter Yee has been furloughed from his job at a rental car company since late March, and now says he spends up to 12 hours a day, seven days a week answering questions and sharing advice in the Facebook group,"Hawaii Unemployment Updates and Support Group."has ravaged the economy of the picturesque town of Kahului on the island of Maui where Yee lives.
In an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19 on the islands, Hawaii’s government acted fast -- imposing a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all visitors. While the move was lauded by many and proved effective in preventing major outbreaks of the respiratory disease on the islands, the impact to tourism, Hawaii’s biggest industry, proved quick and severe.
"The range of unemployment estimates will vary dramatically," Bonham said."The bottom line is it’s bad, a lot of the data is problematic right now because of sort of changes in what it means to be in the labor force." In this photo taken June 5, 2020, a woman walks past the closed doors of the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Honolulu.Roughly 25% of the jobs in Hawaii are connected to tourism, which has almost entirely vanished, according to Bonham.
It now has more than 14,000 members, all of whom have been vetted by admins to make sure they aren't scammers. In the first week of June, the state's Department of Labor announced the sudden leave of its director, Scott Murakami. His office, which did not respond to ABC News' interview requests, said he and other workers had been receiving death threats.
The Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations announced earlier this week -- nearly three months into the crisis -- that it has finally made it through a majority of the claims. Mizutani said according to their simple questionnaires, 80% of families who came to pick up food during the month of May say they have had somebody in their household furloughed or unemployed because of COVID-19, but only 5% have said they were receiving government assistance.A volunteer at the Hawaii Foodbank distributes food amid the COVID-19 crisis.
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