Elvina Nawaguna-Clemente, Cronkite News Service//September 19, 2011//

Slumping housing prices and the prevelance of service-industry jobs contributed to Phoenix and Tucson trailing the rest of the Intermountain West in economic recovery during the second quarter, according to...

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