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By weight, honey bees may be the state's most valuable export.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/apr/23/hawaii-honeybees-vie-for-most-valuable-export/ |title=Hawaii honeybees vie for most valuable export |access-date=December 15, 2011 |archive-date=March 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314184307/http://www.vcstar.com/errors/404/ |url-status=live}}</ref> According to the Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service, agricultural sales were {{US$|370.9}}{{spaces}}million from diversified agriculture, {{US$|100.6}}{{spaces}}million from pineapple, and {{US$|64.3}}{{spaces}}million from sugarcane. Hawaii's relatively consistent climate has attracted the seed industry, which is able to test three generations of crops per year on the islands, compared with one or two on the mainland.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://klewtv.com/news/nation-world/hawaiian-corn-is-genetically-engineered-crop-flash-point-11-19-2015 |title=Hawaii is genetically engineered crop flash point |date=April 19, 2014 |website=KLEW_TV |agency=Associated Press |access-date=April 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112105619/https://klewtv.com/news/nation-world/hawaiian-corn-is-genetically-engineered-crop-flash-point-11-19-2015 |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Seeds yielded {{US$|264}} million in 2012, supporting 1,400 workers.<ref name=ny1310>{{cite news |last=Pollack |first=Andrew |title=Unease in Hawaii's Cornfields |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/business/fight-over-genetically-altered-crops-flares-in-hawaii.html |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |date=October 7, 2013 |access-date=October 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831190727/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/business/fight-over-genetically-altered-crops-flares-in-hawaii.html |archive-date=August 31, 2014}}</ref>
By weight, honey bees may be the state's most valuable export.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vcstar.com/news/2012/apr/23/hawaii-honeybees-vie-for-most-valuable-export/ |title=Hawaii honeybees vie for most valuable export |access-date=December 15, 2011 |archive-date=March 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314184307/http://www.vcstar.com/errors/404/ |url-status=live}}</ref> According to the Hawaii Agricultural Statistics Service, agricultural sales were {{US$|370.9}}{{spaces}}million from diversified agriculture, {{US$|100.6}}{{spaces}}million from pineapple, and {{US$|64.3}}{{spaces}}million from sugarcane. Hawaii's relatively consistent climate has attracted the seed industry, which is able to test three generations of crops per year on the islands, compared with one or two on the mainland.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://klewtv.com/news/nation-world/hawaiian-corn-is-genetically-engineered-crop-flash-point-11-19-2015 |title=Hawaii is genetically engineered crop flash point |date=April 19, 2014 |website=KLEW_TV |agency=Associated Press |access-date=April 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112105619/https://klewtv.com/news/nation-world/hawaiian-corn-is-genetically-engineered-crop-flash-point-11-19-2015 |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Seeds yielded {{US$|264}} million in 2012, supporting 1,400 workers.<ref name=ny1310>{{cite news |last=Pollack |first=Andrew |title=Unease in Hawaii's Cornfields |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/business/fight-over-genetically-altered-crops-flares-in-hawaii.html |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |date=October 7, 2013 |access-date=October 18, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140831190727/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/business/fight-over-genetically-altered-crops-flares-in-hawaii.html |archive-date=August 31, 2014}}</ref>


{{as of|2015|December}}, the state's unemployment rate was 3.2%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Local Area Unemployment Statistics|url=http://www.bls.gov/lau/|website=www.bls.gov|publisher=US Bureau of Labor Statistics|access-date=February 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725005015/https://www.bls.gov/lau/|archive-date=July 25, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2009, the United States military spent {{US$|12.2}}{{spaces}}billion in Hawaii, accounting for 18% of spending in the state for that year. 75,000 United States Department of Defense personnel live in Hawaii.<ref>{{cite news |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/06/ap-military-spending-strong-in-hawaii-060111/ |title=Study: Military spent $12B in Hawaii in 2009 |work=[[Military Times]] |date=June 1, 2011 |access-date=June 1, 2011 |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904070338/http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/06/ap-military-spending-strong-in-hawaii-060111/ |url-status=live}}</ref> According to a 2013 study by Phoenix Marketing International, Hawaii at that time had the fourth-largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, with a ratio of 7.2%.<ref>{{cite web |last=Frank |first=Robert |title=Top states for millionaires per capita |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/15/top-states-for-millionaires-per-capita.html |url-status=live |publisher=CNBC |date=January 15, 2014 |access-date=January 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122061516/http://www.cnbc.com/id/101338309 |archive-date=January 22, 2014}}</ref>
{{as of|2015|December}}, the state's unemployment rate was 3.2%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Local Area Unemployment Statistics|url=http://www.bls.gov/lau/|website=www.bls.gov|publisher=US Bureau of Labor Statistics|access-date=February 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725005015/https://www.bls.gov/lau/|archive-date=July 25, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2009, the United States military spent {{US$|12.2}}{{spaces}}billion in Hawaii, accounting for 18% of spending in the state for that year. 75,000 United States Department of Defense personnel live in Hawaii.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/06/ap-military-spending-strong-in-hawaii-060111/ |title=Study: Military spent $12B in Hawaii in 2009 |work=[[Military Times]] |date=June 1, 2011 |access-date=June 1, 2011 |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904070338/http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/06/ap-military-spending-strong-in-hawaii-060111/ |url-status=live}}</ref> According to a 2013 study by Phoenix Marketing International, Hawaii at that time had the fourth-largest number of millionaires per capita in the United States, with a ratio of 7.2%.<ref>{{cite web |last=Frank |first=Robert |title=Top states for millionaires per capita |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2014/01/15/top-states-for-millionaires-per-capita.html |url-status=live |publisher=CNBC |date=January 15, 2014 |access-date=January 22, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122061516/http://www.cnbc.com/id/101338309 |archive-date=January 22, 2014}}</ref>


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