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Manufacturing sector to lead state to modest growth in ’06

Wisconsin’s economy will continue to grow next year, although a bit more slowly than the rest of the nation, Donald A. Nichols said at a semi-annual conference Friday. In fact, the state, led by a strong manufacturing sector, will continue to close its per capita income gap with the U.S. in 2006, said Nichols, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and leading expert of the state economy.