Source: Paul Wiseman and Derek Kravitz, NEWS & OBSERVER, 12/27/11

 

The U.S. economy will grow slightly faster in 2012 - if it isn't knocked off track by upheavals in Europe, according to an Associated Press survey of leading economists. But unemployment will barely fall from the current 8.6 percent rate by the time President Barack Obama runs for re-election in November, the economists say.

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