Most Recent Regional Economic Outlook

Here are a few tid bits from Economy.com's latest regional economic outlook released just this morning:

* The South and West are leading in the not so stellar job rebound.
* Four of the five Great Lakes states, including Ohio, are in recession.
* Manufacturing is still barely treading water.
* Airline cutbacks are being felt in the major hub cities.
* Smaller and mid-sized metros are faring better than the large ones right now.
* Regional drive-in tourism is the only segment of travel and tourism seeing any advances.
* Defense spending impacts are not yet registering in the defense states and metro areas.

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