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economic committee is meeting now, we re getting republican response, representative kevin brady responding to the president s remarks. instead of providing encouragement, president obama and this congress have given entrepreneurs reason to worry. businesses aren t reluctant to hire because they re waiting to see what washington will do for them, they re reluctant to hire because they re afraid of what washington will do to them. at the bottom of the hour, help for job seekers. and it is coming from people who know the challenge all too well. they were guests of our 30-second pitch and now they re pitching in for other people who are out of work. one of the suspected russian spies, loyalty to the service trumped love for his son. we have got a confession. but when at&t or verizon offer you an unlimited plan for $69.99, that s all it s good for phone calls. with sprint, for the same price, you get unlimited text, unlimited web
we lost 779,000 jobs. the loss of 125,000 is really a major improvement since then. though we got to admit the recovery is slowing. this drop i mentioned we had in june, the 125,000, that was expected because jobs for more than 200,000 temporary census workers, those were phased out. now the more important number that everybody is latch on to is that private sector hiring number. we gained 83,000 jobs in the private sector. it is still weak, but it is better than last month. and finally, another headline number, kyra, we re watching is that unemployment rate you mentioned at the top. surprisingly it fell to 9.5% from 9.7%. but maybe not for a great reason. the improvement was mostly because many discouraged job seekers aren t bothering to look for work anymore. they dropped out of the labor force and they re no longer being counted as part of the labor force and that s why we re seeing that dip in the unemployment rate. kyra? alison, thanks so much. we got word as the joint
prosecutors say she received blood diamonds. yesterday we exposed dirty dental equipment. today, we are learning v.a. hospital workers are ordered to take immediate action. we are fighting for our sick veterans that need better health care. we begin with the lost jobs and vanishing paychecks. how many times have we welcomed you into the newsroom and then told you about more americans finding themselves out of work? autoworkers seeing their jobs disappear in detroit. teachers and other public employees getting pink slips around the country. then, of course, the oil disaster. wiping out jobs and all around the gulf. the bad news just seems to keep on coming. and today, a sliver of good news. just about a half hour ago we learned that the nation s unemployment didn t climb higher as expected. it actually fell to 9.5% in june. more americans are still wondering where s that economic recovery that we keep hearing about. let s try to get answers and
everything possible, but we continually see these spikes in suicide. ptsd cases not being dealt with and the latest disaster out of a va hospital about dirty dental equipment. the leadership of president obama needs to clamp down. they need to change va s culture so va puts veterans first. and to do that by making sure they have enough funding and the right training so that va can see the veterans when they need to be seen. and then when the training doesn t work and the funding doesn t work, and we find va employees cooking the books, and delaying care and denying care, those employees and their supervisors, they need to find another job. no veteran should ever have to wait to see a doctor to this extent. paul sullivan with veterans for common sense.