Want the Red Sox [team stats] to win? Wait till next year. Want the economy to rebound? Wait till the year after that...“It’s going to be pretty flat conditions with very little growth,” said Ross Gittell of the New England Economic Partnership, which holds its fall outlook conference today in Manchester, N.H. “So you’re pretty much looking at another 16 months, 18 months before you’ll see enough growth to pull down the unemployment rate.”

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Boston Globe (AP story, running widely regionally)
Forecast: New England faces slow economic recovery

NHPR
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Boston Herald
Experts: Mass. economy wont rebound till 13

Portsmouth Herald
Economic forecast calls for slow, uncertain growth in N.H.

Sun Journal (Lewiston) (ME)
Maine forecast: Jobs recovery by 2017

Manchester Union Leader
Economist sees slow job growth through next year

WMUR (AP story, running regionally
Expert: NH Economy On 'Thin Ice'