Acknowledgments

Sumner J. La Croix would like to acknowledge assistance from staff at the Barnard College Library, Columbia University libraries, the University of Hawai'i libraries, the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Washington Library, the Bank of Hawai'i, the New York Public Library, the New York University Library, the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Virgin Islands Department of Economic Development, the Puerto Rico Planning Board, the Puerto Rico Office of Management and Budget, the Puerto Rico Department of Labor, the Hawai'i State Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, the American Samoa Development Planning Office, the Palau Office of Planning and Statistics, the Marshall Islands Department of Commerce, the Federated States of Micronesia Bureau of Economic Research, the Guam Department of Commerce, the Northern Mariana Islands Departments of Commerce and Labor, the Office of the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska-Anchorage. The librarians in the Government Documents Collection at the University of Hawai'i Hawai'is Hamilton Library went the extra mile in helping to track down obscure sources and locate obvious ones. Special thanks are also due to Linda Barrington, Susan Carter, Alan Dye, Chris Grandy, Monty Hindman, Matthew Sobek, Richard Sutch, Peter Xenos, and many others who provided support and data over the course of the project. Most important, the project could not have been completed without research assistance from Stephen James Noll, Jian Zhang, Randi Kirtman, Manu Gayatrinath, Mishuku Matsuda, and Min Min Thaw.