Tuesday, May 15, 2012

DOES THE U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAWAI`I TREAT HAWAIIANS FAIRLY?

More than 100 years after the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom government, the rights of the island's indigenous people are still at the top of the conversation.

But voters are split on whether the US government is providing enough benefits to native Hawaiians.

According to a poll survey of 1,162 registered voters1, 36 percent of respondents said the level of benefits is just right. Twenty-seven percent of voters said Hawaiians get "too many" benefits and 23 percent said "not enough." The margin of error was 2.9 percent.

















The poll was conducted in mid-April and comes on the heels of the Hawaii Legislature settling a decades-old $200 million ceded land debt by deeding 25 acres of prime Kakaako real estate to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs....

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