{"pk":46922,"title":"The Year Without Tourism: Hawai‘i’s FY2022 Pandemic Budget","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Hawai‘i’s economy was devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic.  The effective closure of the tourism industry created an unemployment crisis and led to a dramatic decline in tax revenues.  Nevertheless, Hawai‘i managed to avoid mass layoffs of public employees and draconian cuts in public services because of federal relief funds.  The $15.9 billion budget for FY2022 restored funding to most departments, but the state’s dependence on the visitor industry has left it particularly vulnerable to future pandemic travel restrictions.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"budgeting, fiscal policy"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05d871vx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Colin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Moore","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hawai‘i","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2022-05-05T16:59:33Z","date_accepted":"2022-05-05T16:59:33Z","date_published":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cjpp/article/46922/galley/35474/download/"}]}