Newswatch
By Star-Bulletin Staff
Thursday, September 26, 1996
The report, based on 1995 figures, found that the percentage of Hawaii residents living in poverty climbed to 10.3 percent, up from 8.7 percent in 1994 and 8 percent in 1993.
While still below the national level of 13.8 percent - and below rates for all but a dozen other states - Hawaii's poverty rate was climbing faster than those of all but a handful of states. Most states, in fact, saw a decline in their poverty rates. Nationally, the rate dropped from 14.5 percent the previous year.
A family of four living on $15,569 or less a year is considered at the poverty level.
Similarly, the report found that the median household income in Hawaii, while still higher than in every state except Alaska and New Jersey, is declining at a time when incomes nationwide and in most states are on the rise.
Hawaii's 1995 median income was $42,851, down about $2,000 from 1993. Nationally, the median income rose by about $1,000 to $34,076.
Robbins, of Phoenix, was conducting a search and rescue mission for the pilot of another downed aircraft in Laos in April 1966 when his A-1E Skyraider aircraft was hit by ground fire.
In May 1995, a joint U.S.-Laos team excavating the crash site recovered personal effects, aircraft wreckage and human remains.
The Army's Central Identification Laboratory at Hickam Air Force Base completed the identification, and his remains left Hawaii yesterday bound for the U.S. Air Force Mortuary at Travis Air Force Base, Calif.
Some 2,145 Americans remain unaccounted for from the war in Southeast Asia.
Police said at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, a Keauhou woman said she was sexually assaulted by the man while at Higashihara Park.
She was treated and released from the Kona Community Hospital.
The man was released pending further investigation.
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