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Contact: Rossana Weitekamp, 516-792-1462, rossana@weitekamp.com Barbara Pruitt, 816-932-1288, bpruitt@kauffman.org, Kauffman Foundation

(KANSAS CITY, Mo.), Feb. 2, 2010 "“ Despite promising economic growth numbers in the last quarter of 2009, economics bloggers have a grim outlook, according to a new Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation survey released today. Just last Friday, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its advance report of a 5.7 percent growth rate (annualized) of gross domestic product during the fourth quarter of 2009. But even before the fourth-quarter estimate was published, 48 percent of economics bloggers said in the mid-January survey that the economy was "worse than official government statistics show."  Most...