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Defense Still Spending

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Source: Pacific Business News
Published: July 3, 2020

As Hawaii’s economy reels from the impact of the pandemic, one of the state’s largest industries — the U.S. military —continues to pump money and jobs into the state, with contracts awarded this year valued at more than $3 billion over the next five years. [Vernon Inoshita, Kendall Ellingwood III, and Steve Teves of DPI sit down with Janis Magin to discuss how the government is helping the economy.]