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Not nearly enough to put a dent in the unemployment rate. but the president and governor mitt romney react to the disappointing jobs numbers. >> we learned this morning that our businesses created 84,000 jobs new month. that means we created a 4.4 million new jobs over the past 20 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. that is a step in the right direction. >> not only is the 8.2% number unacceptably high, and one that has been in place for over 41 months, but in addition if you look at the broader analysis that people who are out of work or dropped out of the workforce or that are ...

To take part-time work or simply given up looking. the labor department says is 14.9%. the former commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics say another key number shows the labor market is stagnant. >> the employment to population ratio, just what share the population is working, and that number now is at 58.6%. roughly the same it was three years ago. >> reporter: the president took a not so subtle swipe at romney's jet ski vacation, waxing nostalgic about vacation when he was 11. >> we went around the country on greyhound buses and trains and stayed at howard johnsons. >> reporter: he d...

Total unemployment is 14.9% and they are continuing to be concerned about how they will survive. it's not like the president was elected yesterday. he was elected 3 1/2 years ago and put a plan in place that he said would fix it and would get us down to well below 6%. we are not even throws. we are 41 mors above 8%. we keep hearing the president blame everyone else. we e presidents to lead and not blame and make excuses. we had a democratic congress and got everything he wanted. he took his eye off the ball and didn't focus on the economy and now he keeps trying to rewrite history. he said whe...

And not a number that inspires notions that were going to accelerate. if you look at the employment growth, it averaged 220,000 jobs per month. we are looking at 76,000. it's a sign of deceleration and when you look at the components, there were a few bright spots and the broader measure of unemployment and the u 6 rate that has everyone who are characterized as unemployed to those who dropped out of the workforce ticked up to 14.9%. that's not a helpful figure either. >> the president came out and relating to people going on vacations and staying at hojos with his mom and sister as a young ki...

11,000, and health care and wholesale trade added jobs. and average hourly earnings rose six cents to $23.50 an hour, and of course, the underemployed figure and this is important for people who are unemployed for more than six months also ticked up as well. it rose to 14.9% in june from 14.8% in the month of may, so overall these numbers are very, very disappointing. >> mary, out of the beginning of the year, the unemployment rate was coming off of the charts so to speak and coming down and now we see the stagnation where the pulse remanins the same at 8.2% and what are the analysts saying as...