Help for Native Hawaiian Businesses Facing the COVID Storm
by Keli‘i Akina, Ka Wai Ola, April 1, 2021
For the past year, the global COVID-19 pandemic has slowed most sectors of the world economy to a crawl.
In Hawaiʻi, countless businesses have reached out for external help, such as government assistance, simply to survive. However, recent survey data reveals that Native Hawaiian-owned businesses have largely weathered the storm of the last year on their own, without assistance from state or local government programs.
