The good news is the worst is over. The bad news is recovery is far from near and it may be too soon for optimism.

That message echoed throughout the Breakfast Hill Golf Club Tuesday morning as Ross Gittell, a professor at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, delivered his keynote address during the Exeter Chamber of Commerce's ninth annual Economic Forecast breakfast.

Hampshire’s unemployment rate fell slightly in November to 6.7 percent. It was the second straight month the state added jobs...Ross Gittell, an economics professor at the University of New Hampshire, and Denis Delay, an economist with the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, both said last month that they expect the rate to peak around 8 percent.

Ross Gittell, a professor at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire, said it is understandable why many people aren't feeling optimistic..."For most people a recession is when someone they know pretty well (e.g., a family member, friend or neighbor) has lost a job and can't find another job.

Ross Gittell, an economics professor at the University of New Hampshire, and Dennis Delay, an economist with the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, both said last week that they expect the rate to peak around 8 percent.

Paul Harvey, assistant professor of management at the UNH Whittemore School of Business and Economics, researches workplace issues such as employee behavior and took some time to address those questions and others.

“I think the green economy is part and should be part of an economic recovery, but it can’t be counted on as the single source of growth,” said NEEP vice president Ross Gittell, the James R. Carter Professor at the University of New Hampshire’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

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