Acknowlegements

This report was a collaborative effort involving the Department of Economics and the HSU Office of the President. Key individuals involved with producing this report include Denice Helwig (Office of the President), Professor Dan Ihara (Department of Economics), student Alisande Evans (Department of Economics), and Hugh Dalton (HSU Graphic Services).

Special thanks to Peter Kenyon for his inspiration and for the liberal extractions from his 1998 study, to Heidi Chien, Dixie Johnson, Lori Rudebock, Carl Hansen, Kristine Perry, Dan Collen, Tom Trepiak, Kay Libolt and Bob Schultz for their patience in providing HSU and auxiliary data, to Steve Hackett and Maggie Gainer for their guidance, to James Mabry for his assistance in researching local data and to Mary Greta for her editorial attention.