By Jessica Legge Borders
FAIRMONT — “We’ve still got some rough times to go through in 2009,” George Hammond said during the 16th annual West Virginia Economic Outlook Conference.
The event, which the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics sponsored, was held Wednesday at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Charleston and broadcast live over the Internet.
Hammond, associate director of the WVU Bureau of Business and Economic Research, presented the forecast for the state economy in 2010 and beyond. He compared West Virginia’s current economic situation to its past history and the national economy.
“West Virginia has been sucked into the same recession that swallowed the national economy,” said Hammond, who is the author of the West Virginia Economic Outlook.
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