"There's no doubt in my mind or most people's minds that we're facing a very real national economic slowdown," he said.

Like other states, Utah is fighting the national economic slowdown.

We really are moving people from welfare to work - and we're doing it in the face of a national and local economic slowdown.

Ridership had been declining in late summer, as a national economic slowdown cut the amount of travel.

Because of the national economic slowdown, unemployment rates have risen in many cities.

"The forces of the national slowdown filtered into the region in November," he said.

Even as housing costs stay high, families at the bottom now seem to be catching the brunt of a national slowdown in the economy.

Village officials admit that the national economic slowdown may hamper its industries.

"New Jersey had been fairly resistant to the national slowdown," he said.

And yet, the mayor warned that the city, which has so far seemed insulated from the national economic slowdown, cannot escape it.