week for the economy. housing, car sales, manufacturing, construction, consumer confidence, all headed south. and now a disappointing number on unemployment. juliet: the number of discouraged workers is discouraging, it popped, 1.2 million in june and this is a record number. reporter: yes, i don t know whether it s a record number month to month. juliet: my investigation tells me that it is. reporter: i ll go with you. it s a huge number. juliet: you can back me up on it. reporter: i will. you tell me this if you spent a trillion dollars on stimulus, and we have, you ve got to be getting more jobs than 83,000 in the private sector. juliet: what is the problem? reporter: the problem is the president s policy, look this is an opinion, has failed. the stimulus plan did not work as advertised. juliet: why is he saying we re headed in the right direction. reporter: he s looking at the trend. he s saying so far this year in the last six months we have created 600,000 new private s