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The Cal State Long Beach Economic Forecast Project will issue a report today predicting that Southern California’s economic expansion this year will outpace growth nationally. But the school’s forecasters anticipate that the region’s job growth will slow to 2.2% this year, down from 2.9% in 2000. . . . Litronic Inc., an Irvine provider of Internet data security services, said it plans to cut about 25 employees, or 20% of its work force. . . . Circuit board maker DDi Corp. of Anaheim said it has acquired Olympic Circuits Canada, a printed circuit board maker in Toronto, for undisclosed terms.