PORTLAND, Maine - Federal figures indicate that Maine's economy grew just over half a percent between April and June of this year.
That's less than New England as a whole, and the U.S. as a whole, both of which grew between 1 and 2 percent.
New numbers from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis indicate that growth in the state's economic output was led by real estate, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, transportation and warehousing, and health care and social assistance. But construction and retail declined.
