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10 Reasons to Break Out the Slow Cooker
Recipes from The Kitchn
This is the best time of year to take your slow cooker down from the shelf and put it to work. Our days are as busy as ever, and the slow cooker offers a hot, fragrant meal that's ready when we walk in the door, meals like tacos with tender barbacoa beef, a bowl of curried vegetable stew, or even beef shanks in red wine for a slow-cooked date night.
If you don't have your own slow cooker, no worries — you can still enjoy these slow-cooked meals! Every single one of these recipes can also be made in a Dutch oven or even a soup pot with a sturdy lid. Instead of cooking in the slow cooker, put the lid on your pot and cook the dish in a 300°F oven for a few hours. The total cooking time will be shorter, so you'll usually want to start checking your dish after about two hours. It's done when the meat is fall-apart tender and the vegetables are cooked through. Or when it starts tasting delicious, whichever comes first.
Found any new favorite slow cooker recipes lately?
- 1 Barbacoa Beef
- 2 Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew
- 3 Barbecue Shredded Chicken
- 4 Chicken Enchilada Soup
- 5 Peppered Beef Shank in Red Wine
- 6 Cheesy Panade with Swiss Chard, Beans & Sausage
- 7 Lemon Garlic Chicken
- 8 Spiced Porridge for a Crowd
- 9 Coconut & Green Curry Pork
- 10 Roast Beef Po' Boys
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How much cheaper is the slow cooker compared to the oven? Could the pressure cooker be another alternative?
Yesterday I made the Hoisin beef stew from a Whole Foods Recipe.. I only used half the Hoisin and added sliced shitake mushrooms and some soaking liquid. Since I used a bit more liquid so, I used minute tapioca to thicken. Had it with a side of sauteed baby bok choy.
Served with rice. I'm thinking I'll the leftovers over egg noodles. it had lots of gravy..... Easy meal.....
I choose between the Whole Food Recipe and this one from Epicurious which sounds delicious and perfect for slow cooker adaption.
This post is so timely! Am looking to buy a crockpot... any thoughts about the differences: crock pot vs. slow cooker?
I'd like to know if these recipes would turn out in a dutch oven baking as opposed to a slow cooker--I'm still trying to decide if a slow cooker is worth the purchase.
At Lauren28: Crock Pot is a brand name. A slow cooker is the type of device. No difference other than who makes it.
I've already got the slow cooker on the go this year :) I made this veggie-packed black bean soup last week, it was SO good! http://www.amuse-your-bouche.com/veggie-packed-slow-cooker-black-bean-soup/
Anything made in the slow cooker automatically puts me in the mood for autumn/winter!
Slow cookers are quite inexpensive if you skip the extra features like a touchpad control. I restrict my appliances severely, but I am glad of my slow cooker, it comes in handy, even for my solo life, very often.
I cheat, too, and use the liners you can buy. Pull the mess out of the pot, dab at it a little and it's clean!
I remember reading that slow cookers cost about $0.02/hr in electricity, which I'm betting is cheaper than most of us could do with stove or oven.
I love my slow cooker. We bought it 15 years ago and it's built like an ox. One thing I do before adding meat and any onions to the slow cooker is brown them to avoid an odd boiled taste. Otherwise, I find the onions taste strongly of raw onions and the meat tastes kind of sweaty.
I had a programmable slow cooker with a countdown timer......It died for the second time in two an a half years. So I've said never again and opted for the old fashioned kind with low, high and keep warm manual functions.
Separately I've gotten a Crock-Pot SP100 Smart-Part Module, White available on ebay and can be plugged into any slow cooker to automatically switch it to keep warm after the cooking is done.......
Also, as a family of one I'm finding the 1 1/2 quart oval very handy and the three quart oval slow cookers more than sufficient for most cooking.
Does anyone know if we could make our chicken stock in the slow cooker instead of the stovetop?
Lauren 28:
Crockpot is a trademarked name for a brand of slow cooker. But the word has become generic, like "Kleenex" for any tissue. Make sure the lid fits tight, and don't peek while it's cooking. Every time you raise the lid to peek, it adds about 20 minutes to the cooking time, I'm told. I use mine a lot for beans; they don't need soaking first and are better than that "bring to a boil and let sit an hour" method. They turn out creamy and cooked through. Looking forward to trying several of these recipes, thanks.
jen_g I share chicken broth with my Bichon several times a week from the slow cooker---works great for stocks.......
Kitchen therapy has shared how to make stock in the slow cooker here
jen_g I share chicken broth with my Bichon several times a week from the slow cooker---works great for stocks.......
Kitchen therapy has shared how to make stock in the slow cooker here
You can definitely do this. Thinking of this, I know I read in the NYTimes about doing this very thing. Let it cook overnight and wake up to some amazing smells!
I love love love using my slow cooker. This comes timely as my husband will be starting work full time in 2 weeks (I already do) and with 4 kids running around the house, he cant handle cooking at the same time. I was making a list of make ahead recipes. Thank you for this post.
Saluki, if you need a programmable option, buy a timer, like you use for lights! This works great.
The absolutely best recipe I've made in the slow cooker turned out to be just using Richard Blais's Pastrami Brisket recipe (with Coriander, Black Pepper, and Brown Sugar and yellow mustard) in the slow cooker..... and I didn't have to wrap it in aluminum foil.......
It was wonderful and it has me constantly keeping an eye open for small briskets on sale..
I recently tried the Chicken Enchilada Soup recipe linked in the article above, it's really good! Other than that my standby's for the slow cooker are chili and carnitas. Sometimes steel cut oatmeal in the winter. I do need to expand and try some more new recipes though.
The slow-cooker (crockpot) is the most versatile cooker you will ever own.. I have 7 (seven) of them. I use the small ones for beans, the beans come out tender, without going mushy. And the soup is the best. You can use cheaper cuts of meat, because the slow cooker cooks them thoroughly. Hungarian goulash made with short ribs is fabulous. And stuffed green peppers are excellent.
My favorite thing to make in a slow cooker is kalua pork! http://the-cooking-of-joy.blogspot.com/2010/01/kalua-pork.html
I am so excited to start using my slow cooker. I will definitely try this!
I'm a huge fan over cooking things in my dutch oven so have pretty much never had an urge to buy a slow cooker. Are there any advantages of a slow cooker other than the time savings?
@Rinchen: Pressure cookers have their uses, but the flavor of foods cooked in them doesn't come up to the flavors developed during slow, slow, slow cooking.
Unfortunately, I have this OCD fear of leaving a slow cooker plugged in while I'm away from my home for an extended period of time (e.g., at work).
I would love to love the slow cooker but I have not had much success. I think one problem is that if I'm trying to cook while I'm at work, that means it's on for 8 hours or more and even on low everything is mush. Chili works ok but any meat that has bones is just a disgusting vat of loose meat and bones. Sorry, that's gross but just a tip to use the slow cooker for 4 to 6 hours and don't try to cook longer!
I love your handle!
Lauren 28,
I often read (on a different forum) complaints about the new slow cooker in the sense that if there is a power outage during the cooking time, the slow cooker does not automatically restart itself. (Apparently, the older models of slow cooker did this).
This turned to be an issue for people who were overly concerned for meat that would sit in the warm slow cooker for, say, half a day, and they moaned that they had to throw the whole batch out and start again from scratch. (Myself, I would just restart the slow cooker and let it finish the cooking cycle. My only problem would be that dinner was not ready when I got home from work [Typically, I turn it on in the morning before I go to work and I look forward to dinner to be ready when I get back home]).
I don't know if this is anything that would bother you but I thought I would mention it.
There are always slow cookers available at yard sales so an older model should be easy to find.
Otherwise, I appreciate all the recipes - most look very yummy. The first one to try will be the curried veg soup with split peas. I may even make it tonight. With the weather unseasonally cold in s-w Ontario, I have to start thinking of comfort food.
would you care to share the recipe for your Hungarian goulash? I would love to try it.
Seven crockpots - wowzers! I have one large one (5 or 6 quart) and one small one which I use for oatmeal (made from steel cut oats).
I just got myself a crockpot. I've used it at least once a week. I made the most amazing beans. My two year old loved them.
I used the black beans and beets for this recipe:
My only alteration to the beans were adding beets for the first 3 hrs on high, and then turning it on low and leaving it on overnight (my beans were no where near done after 3 hrs). To the brazilian black beans recipe, I used more cilantro, garlic and scallions and top the whole thing with avocado and cherry tomatoes. It is always delicious.
Very timely. I have the ingredients of the Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew in my Crock*Pot right now. :-D
I am unable to recall a time when I did not have and use my Crock*Pot. I am a minimalist, have very few appliances, yet always have this one. I appreciate all of the shares on the virtues of having one.
I would like to make a comment about beans in the Crock*Pot/slow cooker. I have always cooked dried beans in it (and in the fall/winter eat them practically daily). They come out delicious and properly cooked after 7-8 hours (by themselves or in a recipe), and I rarely get gas from them. I also do not pre-soak them, which cuts down on my steps (I really like to keep it simple). It still boggles my mind why so many slow cooker recipes call for canned beans - even the 8 hour recipes. I will not go into reasons why I choose to avoid using most canned foods (others can feel free to step in). However the TASTE of dried beans is incomparable. I inadvertently experimented a few years ago when I borrowed a can of beans for a meal right then. They were almost inedible (and they were organic, etc.) Evidently I had been spoiled by the taste of beans that I cooked myself. So, for me (and my recipes) I choose dried beans. Until others begin to realize they are cheating themselves on the TASTE, I will continue to convert recipes.
And thank you for all who post here (the cooks and the aspiring cooks). I have gotten and used so many fabulous recipes from the Kitchn since I discovered the site, and encourage others to use it too.
Happy cooking and eating to all! Be well.
I would love to share the recipe for Hungarian Goulash. I am in Afghanistan, so I do not have ready access to it!!


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30 U.S. Code § 1472 - Deep Seabed Revenue Sharing Trust Fund; establishment
(a) Creation of Trust Fund
There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the "Deep Seabed Revenue Sharing Trust Fund" (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Trust Fund"), consisting of such amounts as may be appropriated or credited to the Trust Fund as provided in this section.
(b) Transfer to Trust Fund of amounts equivalent to certain taxes
(1) In general
(2) Method of transfer
The amounts appropriated by paragraph (1) shall be transferred at least quarterly from the general fund of the Treasury to the Trust Fund on the basis of estimates made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the amounts referred to in paragraph (1) received in the Treasury. Proper adjustments shall be made in the amounts subsequently transferred to the extent prior estimates were in excess of or less than the amount required to be transferred.
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(1) Report
It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to hold the Trust Fund, and to report to the Congress for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and each fiscal year thereafter on the financial condition and the results of the operations of the Trust Fund during the preceding year and on its expected condition and operations during the fiscal year and the next five fiscal years after the fiscal year. Such report shall be printed as a House document of the session of the Congress to which the report is made.
(2) Investment
(A) In general
It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to invest such portion of the Trust Fund as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States. For such purpose, such obligations may be acquired
(B) Sale of obligations
Any obligation acquired by the Trust Fund may be sold by the Secretary at the market price.
(d) Expenditures from Trust Fund
If an international deep seabed treaty is ratified by and in effect with respect to the United States on or before the date ten years after June 28, 1980, amounts in the Trust Fund shall be available, as provided by appropriations Acts, for making contributions required under such treaty for purposes of the sharing among nations of the revenues from deep seabed mining. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to authorize any program or other activity not otherwise authorized by law.
(e) Use of funds
If an international deep seabed treaty is not in effect with respect to the United States on or before the date ten years after June 28, 1980, amounts in the Trust Fund shall be available for such purposes as Congress may hereafter provide by law.
(f) International deep seabed treaty
[1] See References in Text note below.
Source(Pub. L. 96–283, title IV, § 403,June 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 584; Pub. L. 99–514, § 2,Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095.)
References in Text
Sections 4495 and 4498 of title 26, referred to in subsecs. (b)(1) and (f), were repealed by Pub. L. 105–34, title XIV, § 1432(b)(1),Aug. 5, 1997, 111 Stat. 1050.
Section was enacted as part of title IV of Pub. L. 96–283, and not as part of title III of Pub. L. 96–283, which comprises this subchapter.
1986—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 99–514substituted "Internal Revenue Code of 1986" for "Internal Revenue Code of 1954", which for purposes of codification was translated as "title 26" thus requiring no change in text.
Termination of Reporting Requirements
For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in subsec. (c)(1) of this section relating to the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to report annually to Congress, see section 3003 ofPub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 143 of House Document No. 103–7.
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Overtime bid falls short for Bears Men against Eagles, 94-90
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CHENEY, Wash. -- Freshman guard Jordan Wilson (Los Angeles, Calif.) broke onto the scene Saturday with 21 points, but the Big Sky's leading scorer put down 38 to lead Eastern Washington to a 94-90 win over Northern Colorado at Reese Court.
The Bears (13-6, 7-3 Big Sky) were up by as many as 12 points in the first half and totaled 74 field goal attempts on the day. Eagles (9-12, 4-6 Big Sky) guard Tyler Harvey began his tear at that point while scoring 35 of his 38 points the rest of the way. He scored 10 of the team's 16 3-point field goals in route to shooting 54.4% on the day.
"(I'm) very disappointed in our effort from the neck up," Head Coach B.J. Hill said. "I thought our physical effort was tremendous. I can't fault how hard our guys played."
The 12-point lead for UNC came just around seven and a half minutes into the game. The Eagles then jumped on a 13-4 run featuring three 3-point scores to cut the deficit to three with a score of 24-21. The Bears turned the ball over twice while also missing three shots during the span. Four more missed shots eventually followed as the Eagles went on another run, this time 14-0 to build a lead of 35-28 just before halftime.
"(EWU) is a hot-and-cold team," Hill said. "They were cold in the first couple minutes and then they, especially Harvey, are going to hit shots you don't think they'll hit, but you can't put your head down. We quit being patient on offense and quit attacking offensively and that led out to their run."
After falling to a 14-point deficit in the first 10 minutes of the second half, a 13-2 run allowed the Bears to be back in the game, down just five. In the game of runs, the Bears fell down by double-digits again but used a 12-0 run to take a 78-75 lead with two minutes left. EWU sank two free throws and took advantage of another free throw opportunity following a missed Bears layup to tie the game at 78. Wilson sank his final 3 of the day to give the Bears hope of pulling out the win, but Harvey matched Wilson's as the game was sent to overtime 81-81.
The Eagles made its first two shots and the Bears were unable to sink enough to keep up. Senior guard Tate Unruh (Branson, Mo.) put down a 3 to bring the score to 90-88, but the Eagles pulled out the home win, 94-90.
"We had so many missed rotations defensively off their ball screens because they wouldn't simply talk to each other," Hill said. "That tells me that (they're) not engaged from the neck up in what (they're) doing defensively because if you are, you're talking and helping your teammates. To let a guy go 10-for-15 from 3 when we knew he was a heck of a player, (they're) not engaged in finding a way to get the gameplan done."
The Bears shot 48.6% (36-74) on the day while shooting 35.3% (6-17) from 3. The Eagles shot 55.2% (16-29) from 3 to guide the team to the win while also hitting 54.4% (31-57) from the field. UNC was able to score 22 points off of 15 offensive rebounds while also totaling 37.
Wilson led the Bears in scoring with a career-high 21 points while four others scored in double-digits. Harvey led all scorers with 38 while three others scored in double-digits for the Eagles. Senior forward Derrick Barden (Detroit, Mich.) pulled down eight rebounds.
The Bears continue its roadtrip next Thursday and Saturday while playing Idaho State and Weber State for the second time each this season.


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How Fish Get From the Sea to Your Plate
The tug of war between fishermen, regulators, environmentalists and global competitors complicates the $87-million-a-year local industry
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Photos: Elyse and Matt Mallams
Some afternoons, after lunching on a mess of ahi furikake or fried ahi belly at Nico's, the big fish restaurant down on Pier 38, I like to walk across the street and amble down the docks and survey the ragtag fleet of fishing boats tied up along the wharf.
Like many old sailors, I'm drawn to the waterfront. I like to listen to the Filipino, Indonesian and Micronesian crews joke and tell fish stories in the open stern houses of the boats. I like the hubbub of lading and cleaning and repair work as the boats prepare for their next trips. And I like the ceremony of mooring and unmooring, the dull shudder of the diesel as a boat springs out on a forward spring and heads off to sea, the wordless passing of lines along the quay as a returning boat ghosts into a berth. The working waterfront has always seemed to me a world unto itself, and a brief stroll along the wharf inevitably puts me in mind of older, simpler times.
But Hawaii's fishing industry isn't just a nostalgic relic of the past. It's still a surprisingly important sector of the local economy, selling more than 31.7 million pounds of fish in 2012 with a total value of more than $115 million. Hawaii-based boats caught more than half of the swordfish and nearly 80 percent of the bigeye tuna landed in the U.S. in 2012. The industry directly employs hundreds of fishermen and indirectly supports a vast economy of chandleries, mechanics, electronics companies, boat yards, icehouses and fishmongers. So, although few people visit the commercial harbors at Pier 38, or Kewalo Basin, or Wailoa Sampan Basin in Hilo on Hawaii Island, Hawaii's fisheries play a signature role in how we live. But those fisheries are also under increasing threat from environmental factors, economic pressures and regulatory changes. To understand what those threats mean for the industry, you have to understand its past and the institutions that guide its future.
Hawaiian Fishing
Hawaii loves fish. We famously eat more seafood than any other state: more than nine ounces per person per week, twice the national average. And, although we import more than 60 percent of our seafood, that's well below the mainland average of nearly 90 percent. This is a reflection of the vigor of our fishing industry. Hawaii fishermen bring in an astonishingly diverse catch, including nearshore fish such as akule, opelu and uhu; bottomfish such as opakapaka, onaga and hapuupuu; and, most important, open sea fish (pelagics) such as mahimahi, opah and yellowfin tuna.
The most valuable catches are swordfish and, especially, bigeye tuna. These fish are so prized that most of the other pelagic fish brought to market are just incidental, albeit profitable, by-catch for the swordfish and bigeye fishermen. Bigeye tuna, the source of the best quality sashimi-grade ahi, often sells for more than $7 a pound at auction. This mix of high-value fish makes the tiny local fishing industry a national powerhouse. Although the port of Honolulu only ranked 33rd in the country for the total tonnage of fish landed last year, by value, it was the 10th largest port in the nation.
Such a big, diverse catch means there's a wide variety of fishing boats in Hawaii. Nearshore fish are caught from skiffs, Whalers and every kind of pleasure boat. Reef fish are even caught by spearfishermen towing kayaks behind them. In the bottomfishery, fishermen mostly use poles or handlines or electric reels, and work from open, trailerable boats with big, powerful outboard engines. Many of the boats in the commercial bottomfishery are based on Maui, which is close to the better fishing grounds. But the most economically important of the fishing boats in Hawaii is a fleet of about 130 longliners based out of Pier 38 in Honolulu Harbor and out of Wailoa Sampan Basin in Hilo Harbor. These low-slung, steel-hulled boats range from 64 feet to 100 feet, by regulation the largest they can get. They're lumbering, full-displacement boats that cruise at only seven or eight knots. Hawaii is a fresh-fish market, so that means the boats have a limited range; they rarely stray beyond a 1,200-mile radius of the Islands so they can get their catch back to port while it's still fresh.
Fishermen will tell you that's still a lot of ocean to cover. Sean Martin, one of the major players in the Hawaiian fishing industry, puts it this way: "If you were to go 1,000 miles north, you'd be half way to Kodiak. If you go 1,000 miles west, you're two-thirds of the way to Midway. If you go a 1,000 miles south, you're down in Palmyra. And if you go a 1,000 miles east, you're half way to the mainland. That's the range of the longline fishery."
Few people see Hawaii's fishing industry up close. Most of the fishing happens far out to sea and, because the Honolulu fish auction takes place at 5:30 a.m., the catch is usually landed in the early morning hours.
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Martin has been at the center of Hawaii's fishing industry for 35 years. At 21, he already owned his own boat, a 64-foot aku boat called Finback that he operated out of Crescent City, Calif., pole-fishing for albacore up and down the West Coast. Aku fishing is one of the most exciting commercial fisheries for a young man. The fishermen use long fishing poles with unbaited, barbless hooks at the end of a short length of line. They chum the waters with live bait, then stand in the transom, dipping their hooks into the school of frenzied albacore or skipjack, flipping the big fish over their shoulders onto the deck behind them.
Sometimes they catch hundreds in a day.
"There's nothing more fun," Martin says. "When you're in your teens and 20s and you get to go around and do that, it's not like work at all."
But the California fisheries at the time were looking less and less viable for a boat like Finback. Then, in 1979, Hawaii Tuna Packers, a subsidiary of BumbleBee, sponsored a one-year experiment to test the viability of an albacore fishery in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. That looked like an opportunity to Martin, so he and Finback joined a fleet of 20 fishing boats and a specially rigged refrigerator boat that served as a mother ship and they all headed west in a flotilla.
"We left Crescent City on April 1 and basically fished two-thirds of the way to Japan."
Martin and the rest of the experimental fleet spent the summer trolling for albacore in the NWHI, periodically transferring their catches to the mother ship so they wouldn't have to return to port. At the end of the season, Martin brought Finback to Honolulu and, after spending the winter buying new gear and rerigging the boat, he joined the small longline fleet at Kewalo Basin.
"I started longlining in 1981 and have been involved in the longline fleet ever since," he says.
Sean Martin has been one of the major players in Hawaii's fishing industry for 35 years. He and partner Jim Cook own six longline boats, POP Marine Supply and an ice-supply company.
Today, Martin and his partner, Jim Cook, own six longliners, ranging from the 65-foot Finback to the 100-foot Sea Pearl, one of the newest boats in the fleet. Martin and Cook also own POP Marine Supplies, the main chandlery for the longline fleet, and Hawaiian Ice, which supplies ice for most of the fishing boats, and Cook is part owner of Nico's, the seafood restaurant. In addition, Martin serves as president of the Hawaii Longliners Association and is the past chairman of the powerful Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council. However, he is not without critics. Martin and Cook's boats have been fined numerous times for fishing violations, and some people have accused them of self-dealing in their official roles on the Council.
Nevertheless, few people know more than Martin about longlining in Hawaii.
"Longlining was developed in Hawaii before World War II," Martin says. "It was called flag-line fishing back then, but it's really the same fishery, though some people might argue it's not. The fishery was suspended during the war, because most of the fishermen at that time were of Japanese ancestry and were prohibited from going to sea. After the war, it kind of revitalized again. Most of the boats back then were small sampan boats that fished within fifty miles of the Islands. There was a pretty good-size fleet that operated out of Hilo and was supported by Suisan, the fish auction down there, and there was the fishery here on Oahu. I think the Honolulu fish auction, the United Fishing Agency, started maybe in 1951."
The longline fishery hadn't changed much when Martin arrived in the 1980s. Although it had absorbed a few California boats, like Finback, the size of the longline fleet remained fairly stable at 30 to 35 boats. But to ambitious fishermen like Martin, the Hawaii fishery looked like it had real growth opportunities.
That was largely because of changes in technology. "What happened," Martin says, "was we heard about some different methodologies being used in the Atlantic, so I went to a fishing industry show in New Orleans and saw this new technology.
Rather than use what we used to call 'traditional rope line,' they used heavy-gauge monofilament wound up on a big drum like you can see on all these boats out here now. I bought one of these systems and brought it back and put it on Finback and it turned out to be quite efficient and effective."
Fishermen are notoriously conservative, even superstitious, about change, but the new gear was basically a no-brainer, Martin says. "It took less talent to be effective and you could carry more gear and catch as much or, arguably, more fish than before. So we started importing that gear and providing it to people who were interested. That's kind of how we built POP. That was in 1984, and, I think, by 1988 or 1989, all the boats had changed, with the exception of one or two, to the more modern gear."
At that time, the thriving Hawaii fishery was contrasted by fisheries on the mainland that were overfished and under growing regulatory pressure. In the Northeast, the cod fishery and lobster fisheries seemed on the verge of collapse. In the Mid-Atlantic, the crab and oyster industries, and even the menhaden fishery, once the largest in the country, suffered from radically shrinking catches. In the Gulf of Mexico, price wars that erupted between established local boats and those owned by Vietnamese immigrants began to put pressure on the economic viability of the shrimping industry.
"Back then," Martin says, "the longliners used to always operate out of Kewalo Basin, and one day 22 boats from the Gulf of Mexico showed up. They came in a big caravan, traveling across the Pacific from Panama. They were all Vietnamese immigrants who had been displaced by the Vietnam War and settled on the Gulf Coast. They had been longlining there for yellowfin, so it was a different fishery than ours, but they used similar gear, and I think some of the Vietnamese guys realized there was an opportunity out here, so they got together and said, 'Go west.' That was a kind of the explosion in the industry."
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The family had always known that their seventh-grader was a bit of a tightwad. "Mia's never been a kid who wants to go and spend money at the mall," explained her mother, my daughter. "If we do go to a store, she immediately goes to the back because she knows that's where the sales racks are.
"She's always been a collector of things, so I think it just follows through with money. She likes to collect money."
That's why Mia buying a computer -- an 11-inch AppleMacBook Air that retails at $1,200, but was about $1,500 with taxes, classes and software -- came as more than a surprise.
"I went to Mom and told her I wanted a MacBook Air; it's really light and you can carry it anywhere," recalled Mia. "She said no.
"I told her I wanted a laptop really bad -- for writing up papers, socializing, or when Mom or my sister or Dad are hogging the family computers; we have a big family computer, and one that's close to death. Post continues after video."She still said no, so I asked her to check my CD account at the bank, and she said it was almost up for renewal. I said, 'OK, I'll take that money.' It was a little over $1,000."
Then came the stunner: Mia added the $500 she was keeping in her room. "It was baby-sitting money; I get $5 an hour," she explained. "Usually, I don't keep more than $100 there before I take it to the bank. I also have over a thousand, probably $1,100, in my savings account."
So, how does a 13-year-old accumulate that sort of money?
"I been saving it since I think I was 8," Mia said. "Lemonade sales. I baby-sit a lot. I used to get an allowance when I was little for making my bed and that kind of stuff, but they don't give that to me anymore."
Does she think she is depriving herself with such a stringent savings program?
"No, not really," Mia said. "I don't think I need the money right now. The only thing I buy are books and video games. Mostly, everything I buy is something I know I'm going to use for at least five years. I don't need more than $100 a year; the rest just goes into the bank for high school and college.
"I really want to be a chemical engineer, and an author," said Mia, who is taking high school-level math and literature classes. "I'll try to get into a good engineering school -- MIT, Yale, Princeton, the University of California -- and write in my free time."
Given her proclivity for savings, did she have any reservations about spending $1,500 on a computer?
"No, I really wanted it," she replied. "I don't mind spending my own money because it gives me a feeling of accomplishment that I can buy something for me without my parents' money.
"I think I'm old enough to make money decisions for myself," she said, adding with a giggle: "I think I have a decent credit score."
And what advice would she give to her peers?
"Save up; you're going to need it."
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Sci-fi writers are obsessed with the idea of opposite dimensions. A character in one dimension is the consummate good guy. Fighting for justice, he's a peaceful warrior at heart, always on the side of righteousness. In the opposing dimension there's the villain, the scoundrel, Spock with a goatee. Aside from subtle differences in facial hair, writers tend to make the characters look the same. They apparently lived similar lives that brought them to the same point in time and space where their respective dimensions overlapped through a temporal rift or a man-made portal. At some point, the two opposites must battle it out to save or enslave humanity. Generally the good guy wins, but who says our perception of the universe works in every dimension?
In a blistering hot Southern California Canyon we let two polar opposites like this duke it out for superiority. Both cars are examples of GMG Racing's WC Tuning program. Running a three-car team in World Challenge Racing has led GMG to develop its racing parts for use on customer cars. Everything from suspension to exhaust has made the transition from the track to serious street performance.
GMG focuses the majority of its attention on suspension tuning. On the track, adjustability and consistency are key to fast lap times. Adjustability is obtained by replacing Porsche's fixed-length linkages with fully adjustable pieces that allow for both static and kinematic geometry tuning. For consistency, GMG replaces all the soft rubber bushings with spherical steel bearings. Ridding the suspension of deflection ensures that everything stays were it was intended to be under heavy loads.
The black GT2 uses factory springs and dampers, while the white GT3 has attained the next level with Eibach springs and Moton adjustable dampers valved to GMG specs. Both cars use GMG anti-roll bars front and rear that allow fine-tuning the handling balance. The GT3 also uses Porsche Motorsport uprights used on Rolex Series cars. The recalibrated units alter the suspension's roll-center, changing lateral weight transfer for more aggressive cornering.
Readers should be warned that most of the suspension parts found on these cars aren't for the average guy just looking to blow some money to impress his neighbors. These are race grade parts that require professional install, set-up and maintenance. If you spend as much time sitting on the Starbucks patio staring at your 911 sipping your Dopio Machiato as you do driving it, these parts aren't for you.
Something everyone can appreciate, however, is exhaust modifications. The GT3 uses GMG's sport center section that not only adds a few horsepower but shaves 12 pounds of weight. It is completely emissions legal and even works in conjunction with the car's Sport button. The GT2 is a little more involved, the exhaust manifolds replaced with free-flowing 3-into-1 headers using F1-style merge collectors in front of the turbos. Downstream is GMG's WC titanium sport exhaust, which uses a proprietary crossover section. GMG is currently trying to patent this novel design. Both systems add a noticeable amount of anger to the cars' voices without overpowering the passengers inside.
For the real power bump, GMG worked with GIAC to develop software that works in tandem with the other mods. The GT3 gains a modest but noticeable 18 hp and 21 lb-ft of torque. The monster GT2, on the other hand, rips off 680-hp and 700-lb-ft runs on the dyno. Apparently the car was able to run up to 695 hp and 720 lb-ft, but in the interest of mechanical preservation it was dialed back slightly to keep the engine internals where they belong-inside the engine.
It may sound like these two cars have similar manners. Sure, the GT2 has more power and the GT3 seems a little more developed in the suspension department, but only incrementally. Kind of like two fighters, one being slightly bigger and the other having better technique. Both have their strengths, but neither a clear advantage.


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The ocean opened, spitting out thousands of ships rolling onto the northern shores of France delivering over 150,000 men weighted with guns, grenades and hope. It was June 6th, 1944--the beginning of the end--a day that had a profound effect on all of our lives--even those of us who were not yet born.
I just returned from Normandy and my vacation's timing to the D-Day anniversary was strangely ironic. I was not on a genealogical hunt or charged with a passion to travel to the D-Day Memorials. I was there for a leisurely vacation in the northern countryside of France. But I left with an awakening: A deepened understanding and gratitude to the Allied Troops who took horrific risks to change my future--our future.
On a rainy, chilled-to-the-bone day, my husband and I drove to the beaches of Normandy. I had no expectations other than I felt I had to make the journey. We were there and we should see it.
It is just a beach but we need to see it.
And then we walked towards Omaha Beach, passing a long eternity pond whose arm guided us toward the ocean and as we turned, thousands of marbled crosses peered at us, standing proudly at attention. The blanked landscape flowed upon the beach and our minds trailed with pictures of death and bloodiness of that day.
For most of us war is an event that occurs far away in time and place. But weaving between the soldier's graves in Normandy, I suddenly felt I understood the gravity of that day. Had the Allies failed, imagine what our lives would be today.
And so I feel I will never let June 6th pass again without holding its profound meaning high.
It is not a holiday. It is our lives.
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As part of its community outreach and further promoting local talent in various aspects of cinema, the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) will host the first-ever Acting for Camera workshop for school students this year, presented by Dubai Pearl.
Acting for Camera is open for school children aged 11 to 17 years and will be held at the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre (DUCTAC) on December 11 and 12. The training programme, offered for free, is led by international professionals and is open for 80 students living in the UAE.
DIFF's Managing Director Shivani Pandya said the Acting for Camera workshops complement the various initiatives launched by DIFF to introduce and actively engage regional talent on various aspects of film production.
"DIFF is more than a celebration of cinema; it is a community event that is aimed at grooming a confident new generation of film professionals. The Acting for Camera workshops, for the first time in the region, puts the spotlight on training students for films," she said.
The Acting for Camera sessions will be introduced and hosted by Pippa Hall, a children's casting director who has worked on films such as Nanny McPhee and The Chronicles of Narnia. The workshop will be led by Claire Downes and Stuart Lane from Round Midnight, who have proven expertise in running drama workshops.
Working in pairs and groups, children can hone their acting skills, characterization techniques and performance skills by working on specifically written scenes, before having their work filmed and evaluated. A DVD copy will be forwarded to schools after the festival.
Santhosh Joseph, President & CEO of Dubai Pearl, said: "We are delighted to support the Acting for Camera workshop that will enable children to work on their acting skills. Our initiative to be part of the first of its kind workshop in the region is in line with our social responsibility charter that mandates the engagement of young people in personal development activities through offering exclusive opportunities for learning, interaction and involvement."
To participate in the Acting for Camera workshop, interested schools can contact email@example.com for registering interest.
Now in its sixth year, DIFF 2009 is held in association with Dubai Studio City and will be held from December 9 to 16. Dubai Duty Free, Dubai Pearl, Emirates Airline and Madinat Jumeirah are the principal sponsors of DIFF and the event is supported by Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture).


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As a result of hedging arrangements entered into with respect to these securities, Genworth's effective interest rates will be 3.5315% on the three-year notes, 4.478% on the five-year notes, 5.510% on the ten-year notes and 6.349% on the thirty-year notes.
The proceeds of this debt offering will be used to repay a portion of the outstanding borrowings under a $2.4 billion 180-day credit facility that Genworth entered into concurrently with the completion of its initial public offering on May 28, 2004.
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Dena Chandler says she and her cat Tinker Bell were trying to go to sleep around 2 a.m. Friday.
"I just kept smelling smoke and I have a fire place in there so I was just thinking it was from there and I rolled over and the whole room, the walls, was blazed up and the ceiling. I could not see anything it was so smoky."
Chandler says she fractured her arm about a month ago, but was able to make it outside. That was when she realized Tinker Bell was still inside.
"So I said I gotta get him, so I felt my way back in, went in the bedroom and by the time I got him, there was pieces of ceiling dropping on the bed and it burnt his paws up bad and I had to take him to Dr. Bailey. He's in a lot of pain, but I'm glad that I saved him."
Investigators determined the fire started in the chimney.
"They thought it was faulty wiring, but it wasn't. The fire inspector went back and it was actually the chimney. The brick blowed it got so hot," said Chandler.
Chandler says with just a week until Christmas, she doesn't know how she'll be able to celebrate.
"I don't have anything. I mean it's Christmas time and I have a two year old boy Dillon and I don't have any presents. I don't have any money to buy none. But I did have 78 cents and they were ringing the bell at Salvation Army and I put that in there. So that was my last 78 cents."
And she says her living arrangements are still up in the air. "You know I'll stay with a friend this day and that day and a lot of them have one bedroom apartments and a lot of times the landlord won't let you stay with them. Like tonight, I do not know where I'm going to stay and I'm worried about it."
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Rather than review the finale alone, we're reviewing the entire season of The Wolf Among Us, which is sold as a package of five episodes. We've avoided major plot details, but some spoilers are unavoidable, especially for episodes one and two. Also, no, we don't know if there will be a second season, but we're calling this "season one" in the event that there is.
I don't like hitting the 'Q' key very quickly to do things. In The Wolf Among Us, abusing the Star Trek antagonist—to win a fight, to transform into a wolf, to lift a car—ties the violence of sheriff Bigby Wolf to the strain on my finger. That interactive connection is a reason to include button mashing and quicktime events, but it's not a great solution. I enjoyed all five episodes of The Wolf Among Us—a lot—but I'm disappointed that it holds onto some of the conventions established in The Walking Dead.


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Western Illinois (18-13) earned its first trip to the conference championship game in 15 years.
Parks led the fourth-seeded Leathernecks with 14 points, eight rebounds and four blocked shots. Ceola Clark scored 11 points, and he and Jack Houpt sank three 3-pointers apiece.
Dominique Morrison's 23 points paced the Golden Eagles (27-6). Warren Niles scored 11 points, and Michael Craion had 11 rebounds.
Oral Roberts was up 49-41 with 8:03 left. But after Morrison made two free throws for a 53-48 lead with 4:03 to go, the Golden Eagles went scoreless the rest of the way.
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I love my FIOS, but I am considering switching back to Time Warner because you have no local coverage. Time Warner has News 12 for Westchester and Long Island. They also have NY1 for NYC. We have one major newspaper for this large, densely populated complicated area that is Westchester County. A secondary news source like News 12 is more than a luxury, it is practically essential. Please consider either making a deal to bring these channels to Westchester and NYC residents or create your own news stations. I cannot continue to be in the dark in this area where even as I type sitting in my home uncomfortably close to both Indian Point and NYC, we are under threat of a terrorist attack, of what type we do not know. The citizens of Westchester need a News 12 type station and a NY1 type station.
verizon already has a news station called fios 1 news based in long island. www.fios1news.com .
you can watch live coverage of 9/11 on the fios 1 news website. www.fios1news.com/longisland.
verizon does plan to expand fios 1 news to other areas that verizon fios has sometime in the future.
Thank you JWeiland11, I do appreciate that information. I do not know how much of Westchester is covered by FIOS, but even though we are geographically close, we are a completely different community from Long Island so Long Island coverage does not help us. It does indicate that they know there is a need, so that is good news. I hope they get to Westchester soon.
I was a Time Warner subscriber before I switched to FIOS. I loved the NY1 channel. Friends who still use T-Warner
tell me they don't want to switch to FIOS because they don't want to lose NY1.
Can you develop a similar channel for us?
I'm very excited to see that the status is now "In Progress."I'm also in Westchester, and I've written elsewhere about how for years the prospect of losing News12 kept me from switching to FiOS. In the meantime, you can watch News12 Westchester and News12 Hudson Valley on the News12 website. You have to watch extra website commercials as well as the usual News12 commercials, and there's no FF, etc., but it's better than nothing. Try using your Cablevision account number to get access.I lived in NYC when NY1 started, and it was much, much better than News 12. So if Fios1 is anything like NY1, it will be wonderful. And yes, everybody: Long Island is totally irrelevant to Westchester, except maybe for people who live on Long Island Sound.
You might want to take a look at the date on that "in progress" post by long gone Joe - 10/4/2011.
I should have known it was too good to be true. I guess I was so excited that I forgot how to read!
FIOS news 1 NYC (manhattan, staten island, brooklyn)
When I had a subscription with Comcast, they had local channels. Please get local channels, I hate to have to watch the weather or traffic for another state other than my own. They don't give us our weather or traffic updates as if we had our own local channels.
I am looking to get 12 News channel.
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|August 2005Volume 11, Number 8
|JEL classification: E2, F2
Authors: Erica L. Groshen, Bart Hobijn, and Margaret M. McConnell
Recent concerns about the transfer of U.S. services jobs to overseas workers have deepened long-standing fears about the effects of trade on the domestic labor market. But a balanced view of the impact of trade requires that we consider jobs created through the production of U.S. exports as well as jobs lost to imports. A new measure of the jobs gained and lost in international trade flows suggests that the net number of U.S. jobs lost is relatively small—2.4percent of total U.S. employment as of 2003.
In the aftermath of the 2001 recession, the perception has grown that vast numbers of U.S. services jobs are being relocated to India, China, and other developing countries. Anecdotes abound of companies using overseas call centers, computer programmers, help desk workers, and accountants while closing down whole departments here. The alleged surge in relocations after 2001 coincided for some years with a sluggish job recovery, prompting many to conclude that the "offshoring" of jobs accounted for much of the persistent weakness in the U.S. labor market. While concerns about job relocations were fueled by the slow job growth during the recovery, the belief that U.S. workers are losing jobs to foreign competition has a much longer history: Indeed, the current concerns echo those voiced in many earlier periods about the impact of international trade on domestic workers.
In this edition of CurrentIssues, we explore the relationship between trade and job creation in the UnitedStates. In doing so, we adopt two premises. First, the offshoring of jobs is best seen as another form of import activity rather than an altogether new phenomenon. Second, a careful analysis of the effect of recent trade patterns on the U.S. labor market requires that we measure not only the jobs lost to imports but also the jobs created through the production of U.S. exports. Our strategy is to obtain a measure of the net effect of trade on the nation's employment—a measure we term "U.S. jobs embodied in net imports"—and to examine the behavior of this measure over the last two decades. Because we consider both the U.S. jobs embodied in the goods and services imported to the UnitedStates and the U.S. jobs embodied in the production of the country's exports, our estimate of jobs lost to trade is more balanced and complete than the estimates presented in earlier studies.
We have two main findings. First, we determine that the offshoring of jobs has been a limited phenomenon: Our comprehensive estimate of the number of jobs embodied in U.S. net imports is small relative to total employment in the UnitedStates1—2.4percent of the total, at the most—both historically and in recent years. Moreover, this estimate is sometimes positive and sometimes negative, suggesting that international trade does not necessarily mean a loss of jobs for the UnitedStates.
Second, we find no evidence to support the claims that a surge in offshoring played a large role in the jobless recovery. Jobs embodied in net imports did not grow at an accelerated pace after the 2001 recession. In fact, the increase in U.S. jobs sent abroad has averaged about 30,000 per month since 2001—a deceleration from the monthly average increase of 45,000 jobs during the period from 1997 to 2001.
More broadly, our results show no clear or necessary relationship between a pickup in jobs lost to trade and weakness in the U.S. labor market. A case in point is the 1997-2001 acceleration in offshoring, which occurred when U.S. payrolls were expanding steadily.
Common Assumptions about the Outsourcing of Jobs
Imports and trade imbalances more generally surged in the 2001-03 period.
Observed trade volumes, however, suggest a different scenario. Net imports in the three sectors that make up the private economy—services, durable manufacturing, and nondurable manufacturing—all rose during the 2001 recession and the years following, but the increase in each case continued a trend that had existed at least since 1997 (Chart 1). Thus, there is no evidence—at this high level of aggregation—of any sudden upturn in imports or trade deficits in these sectors in 2001-03. Instead, it appears that faster growth in certain industries was balanced by slower growth in others, so that overall growth rates were consistent with previous trends.
The outsourcing of jobs to foreign workers has caused a sharp increase in layoffs.
How, then, can we account for the dearth of jobs during the recovery? The answer is that job creation rates fell dramatically, from 8.4percent in the fourth quarter of 1999 to a low of 6.9percent in the first quarter of 2003. In other words, employment growth was slow because firms were hiring many fewer workers than they were during the preceding expansion, not because they were laying them off more rapidly. If trade was in fact driving the sluggish job recovery, it must have been working to suppress the creation of new jobs rather than to generate more layoffs.
Sectors with high or growing trade lagged more than other sectors in job creation.
Turning to services, we find that the results are even more mixed. Business services—an industry in which outsourcing is believed to have taken a large toll on domestic jobs—saw above-average job losses during the recession and recovery. However, finance, insurance, wholesale trade, and management and engineering jobs did relatively well, despite often-voiced concerns about outsourcing. Moreover, a number of services industries that are not exposed to trade incurred above-average employment losses; the leisure and hospitality trades, for example, do not transfer jobs to overseas workers but still experienced heavy payroll shortfalls relative to the preceding period.
The absence of any consistent pattern in the fortunes of individual industries suggests that while trade-related competition may have driven job losses in some sectors, layoffs in many other sectors occurred for reasons unrelated to trade. Indeed, in a number of industries, forces such as technological change, investment overhangs, and changing consumption behavior are much more likely to have caused job losses.
In sum, all three assumptions we have examined appear to be flawed or exaggerated. To be sure, jobs have been lost through trade flows, but there is no evidence that offshoring has produced rampant job destruction or that industries heavily exposed to trade have, as a group, lost a disproportionate number of jobs.
Measuring U.S. Equivalent Jobs Embodied in Trade
Second, given that trade flows in both directions, exports as well as imports must be considered in any assessment of the effect of trade on U.S. jobs. After all, while some jobs are lost to imports, others are created through the production of exports. Thinking about trade's employment effects as a two-way phenomenon leads us to ask the more essential question, "What have been the job implications of recent flows of goods and services to and from the UnitedStates?"
The importance of looking at exports as well as imports is best understood by examining how the experiences of individual workers are "counted" in trade flows. What we find is that U.S. job losses, like U.S. job gains, are sometimes counted in import flows and sometimes in export flows. Consider first the hypothetical case of Dan, a U.S. software programmer. His company has fired him and hired programmers in India to replace him. If the company sells the software in the UnitedStates, the firing of Dan will mean the loss of a U.S. job and an increase in U.S. software imports from India. Alternatively, if the company sells the software abroad, then Dan's job loss will be reflected in lower U.S. software exports. Thus, in assessing the effects of trade, one cannot readily isolate imports from exports because the loss of a U.S. job might produce either a drop in exports or a rise in imports.
Similarly, U.S. job gains may be counted on either side of U.S.-foreign trade flows. Denise, a consultant employed in the UnitedStates, has two current assignments. For the first assignment, she advises an American company on how to penetrate the Asian marketplace. Company managers had initially hired an Asian consultant but soon realized that they preferred Denise, with her U.S. business school education, for the job. Hence, Denise's first assignment reduces consultancy services imports to the UnitedStates. Denise's second assignment involves advising a European company that is considering launching a product in the UnitedStates. This assignment contributes to consultancy services exports. Thus, U.S. jobs created through U.S. trade can either decrease imports or raise exports.
To determine the job implications of bilateral trade flows, we first calculate how many U.S. workers, at current wages, prices, and productivity levels, would be needed to produce the goods and services imported by the UnitedStates. We then calculate how many U.S. jobs are needed to produce the goods and services exported by the UnitedStates. By subtracting the second number from the first, we obtain a net measure of the employment effects of trade. Since U.S. imports exceed U.S. exports, this is essentially a measure of the number of jobs needed to produce U.S. net imports domestically. Thus, we call this measure U.S. jobs embodied in net imports.4
The methodology we use to estimate the net measure is described in detail in the box. In essence, however, we compute this measure by multiplying the change in U.S. output needed to replace U.S. net imports by the ratio of U.S. employment to U.S. output. To calculate the first term, we use the U.S. input-output tables constructed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (Chentrens and Andreassen 2003). These tables allow us to account for both the direct jobs and the support jobs needed to produce U.S. net imports. Including support jobs takes into account the "multiplier effect" of job losses—that is, the tendency of job losses to spread to supporting or related positions.5
We estimate the U.S. jobs embodied in net imports for the entire private economy and its three constituent sectors over the 1983-2003 period. Our results, plotted in Chart 4, indicate that 2.6million jobs would have been needed to produce total U.S. net imports in 2003. Roughly 2.5million jobs would have been needed to produce net imports in durable manufactured goods in 2003, and about 1.3million jobs to produce net imports of nondurable manufactured goods in the same year. By contrast, services trade ran a surplus, so the UnitedStates exported output equivalent to 1.2million jobs. (Since the chart shows net imports, the 1.2million net export figure appears as a negative number.)
The trends in the three sectors also merit attention. Beginning in 1997, all three show a rise in the jobs embodied in net imports—meaning that, relative to the preceding years, the sectors were losing more jobs to trade (on net) and contributing fewer jobs to U.S. payrolls. In the case of the services sector, this rise reversed an earlier pattern: the U.S. jobs needed to produce the country's surplus of services exports had been growing steadily since 1986, reaching a peak of 2.4million jobs in 1997. From 1997 to 2003, however, the number of payroll jobs embodied in services net exports dropped by 1.2million jobs. This decline was almost as great as the decline of 1.6million jobs in the jobs contributed to U.S. payrolls by the two manufacturing sectors over the 1997-2003 period.
Interpreting Our Findings
Further evidence against such an association comes from the behavior of jobs embodied in total net imports (Chart 4, black line). Between 1997 and 2003, the number of jobs embodied in total net imports rose by 2.9 million, which amounts to about 40,000 jobs a month on average. The flow from 1997 to 2001 averaged about 45,000 jobs a month; it fell to about 30,000 jobs from 2001 to 2003. Thus, the growth of jobs lost to trade actually slowed during the post-recession period of weak job gains.
As a measure of magnitude, our estimates of the jobs embodied in net trade flows suggest that offshoring has been a limited phenomenon. Although 40,000 jobs a month may seem to be a large number, we can put such statistics in perspective by dividing the number of jobs embodied in net imports by total U.S. payrolls (Chart 5). What we find is that relative to total employment, the number of jobs embodied in recent net trade is small—never more than 2.4percent and sometimes negative.
While offshoring thus emerges as a comparatively small part of the total employment picture in Chart 5, the overall trend depicted in the chart suggests why concerns about jobs lost to trade might have grown in recent years. As a share of total employment, the number of jobs embodied in net imports has continued to climb; in 2003, this measure was 2.4percent, its maximum value for the period observed. The increase in this measure might at first appear to conflict with our finding that jobs embodied in net imports have grown at a slower pace since 2001. Yet the conflict is easily resolved: From 1997 to early 2001, the labor market was tightening and domestic job creation was high; although jobs embodied in net imports were growing at a relatively fast pace, they attracted less attention as a share of total employment. Then, as job creation rates dropped dramatically from 2001 to 2003, jobs embodied in net imports, though growing more slowly, claimed a larger share of total employment. Thus, the loss of jobs to overseas workers became much more conspicuous in the later period.
One further exercise that can help us reach a more realistic assessment of offshoring is to compare the jobs embodied in total gross imports with the jobs embodied in net imports
Uncounted Benefits of Trade
In discussing the gains from trade, economists emphasize that trade allows countries to specialize in the production of particular goods or services. Specialization makes trading partners richer because each exchanges goods it produces efficiently for goods that its partners can produce at lower cost.
In one form of specialization, countries concentrate on a particular phase of a product cycle. Some countries may specialize in the beginning phase of the cycle, when innovation is needed to conceive a product and experiment with its design. Other countries are better adapted to take on the later phases of the cycle, when the product evolves into a commodity and its design and manufacture become routine.
Since the UnitedStates has the highest rate of international patenting per capita in the world,7 it can be thought of as specializing in product innovation, the first phase of the cycle. Once a product matures, however, the UnitedStates loses some of its comparative advantage in producing that good. The country's highly skilled workers may be too expensive to be internationally competitive in the routine production of many commodities. Thus, when a product or service becomes a commodity, the most routine jobs involved in its production may be sent overseas.
Subsequently, competition among producers lowers the price of the commodity, raising the purchasing power (or wealth) of consumers and thus their demand not only for that good but for others. This process is the source of new jobs for the U.S. workers displaced when jobs go overseas. As wealth increases and demand grows, these workers can find employment elsewhere in the economy and perhaps move on to the design and creation of the next new product. Seen in this way, the country's ability to continue sending jobs overseas may be, at least in part, a sign of its ongoing success in innovation.8
The process we have described also creates wealth in the developing countries that take over the production phase. Since wealthier countries are better customers for U.S. products, the UnitedStates benefits from this effect as well.
Our conclusion that trade has only modestly affected aggregate U.S. employment does not imply, however, that trade has had no serious consequences for individual workers. Our approach explicitly recognizes that jobs created through trade may, to a greater or lesser extent, offset jobs lost to trade. But even if these job gains and losses roughly balance for the U.S. economy as a whole, they may not do so for individual workers—that is, some workers who lose a job to imports may not immediately find an equivalent position. Quantifying the effects of trade on the well-being of workers is beyond the scope of our analysis. Rather, our study offers a new, net measure of the overall number of jobs embodied in recent trade flows.
1. Throughout this article, the term "total employment" refers to nonfarm business employment. This measure, which excludes government and farming jobs, is commonly used by economists to represent the number of jobs in the private sector.
2. More information about the relatively new Business Employment Dynamics data series is available at <http://www.bls.gov/bdm/home.htm>.
3. See U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, News, June 10, 2004, <http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/reloc.pdf>.
4. We caution that this exercise does not yield the number of jobs that would actually be added to payroll employment if all net imports were produced in the UnitedStates. To determine this number, we would have to take into account any reallocations of labor that arise from the wage, price, and productivity effects of trade. We hold all these factors fixed in our analysis.
5. For example, if a firm loses production jobs to overseas workers, it may cut back its payroll services staff accordingly.
6. For example, two often-cited estimates of services jobs lost to offshoring—Goldman Sachs and Company (2003) and McCarthy (2002)—measure only the gross flows of U.S. jobs to other countries.
7. Porter and Stern (2001) provide evidence on patenting per capita. The authors also rank the UnitedStates first in a "National Innovative Capacity Index."
8. Maintaining this success over time, however, may become more difficult. The country's current specialization in innovation depends on the strength of its science and engineering workforce. Current trends—in particular, the declining numbers of U.S. science and engineering graduates and the diminished job market rewards for these graduates—may erode this dominance in the future (see Freeman [2005]).
Chentrens, Carl, and Arthur Andreassen. 2003. "Employment Outlook: 2000-2010, Layout and Description for 192-Order Input-Output Tables: 1983-2000 Historical and Projected 2010," <http://www.bls.gov/emp/empind3.htm>.
Freeman, Richard B. 2005. "Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?" NBER Working Paper no. 11457, June.
Goldman Sachs and Company. 2003. "Offshoring: Where Have All the Jobs Gone?" U.S. Economics Analyst Global Economic Research Bulletin, September 19.
McCarthy, John C. 2002. "3.3 Million U.S. Service Jobs to Go Offshore." TechStrategy Brief, Forrester Research, November 11.
Porter, Michael, and Scott Stern. 2001. "National Innovative Capacity." In The Global Competitiveness Report: 2001-2002. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Chart 1
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Note: The shaded areas indicate periods designated national recessions by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Chart 2
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Note: The shaded area indicates a period designated a national recession by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Chart 3
Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Note: For the closing date of the recession and recovery period, we use April 2003, the last month for which Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) industrial detail is available. Although job growth did not resume until August 2003, 96 percent of the period's losses occurred between March 2001 and April 2003.
More on Methodology
Our calculation of U.S. jobs embodied in net imports is based on the following equation:
To compute the amount of nominal output required to replace U.S. net imports for each key sector, we use the sequence of U.S. input-output tables for 1983-2000 developed by Chentrens and Andreassen (2003) for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). We begin by calculating an industry-by-commodity requirement matrix, as explained in Chentrens and Andreassen. This matrix provides us with an estimate of the amount of industry output required per dollar of each good or service supplied to final users.
We then multiply this requirement matrix by the amounts of net imports of goods and services. That is, we assume that the net imports, initially assumed to flow to U.S. final users, are now produced in the UnitedStates. The result of this calculation provides us with an estimate of the amount of output required from each sector, at current factor prices, to replace net imports. This is essentially the first ratio in the right-hand side of the equation and is measured in current dollars.
Next, we calculate the number of jobs embodied in these output levels by multiplying the levels by the number of workers per dollar of output for each sector, which is the second ratio in the right-hand side of the equation. The employment data are taken from Current Employment Statistics, a BLS series.
Because we do not have any input-output tables for the years after 2000, we use the 2000 requirement matrix to calculate the jobs embodied in trade for 2001 through 2003. Using requirement matrices for years other than 2000 for this calculation yields very similar results. Note that our results are conditional on the assumption that there are no drastic changes in the requirement matrix after 2000.
Like other analyses based on input-output tables, ours is limited by the assumptions that underlie these tables. Thus, our analysis assumes constant-factor input shares to calculate the input requirements for each industry. In addition, the data do not allow us to account for differences in quality between traded and nontraded goods.
Our results are all based on the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system, because this system is used to define the sectors in the input-output tables that we employ. Results for 2003 are based on employment figures for April of that year, the last month for which SIC-based employment data were published. The import and export data that we use are based on the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), because no SIC-based trade data are available after 1999. Before 1999, the difference between SIC- and NAICS-based trade data does not imply important quantitative and qualitative differences in our results.
Chart 4
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; authors' calculations.
Chart 5
Source: Authors' calculations.
Chart 6
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics; U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; authors' calculations.
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