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here today, folks, new information on the economy on this hour, the unemployment rate in july held steady, 9.5%, that s unchanged from the month before, but adding to a disturbing trend. take a look at this chart, the chart tells everything, it shows unemployment pretty much stuck at some alarming high levels in recent months. in july, the private sector which is where you really want to see these jobs added, added thousands of new jobs but not nearly enough to start to bring the drop in overall unemployment rate to any real encouraging level. now, this comes as one of president obama s top economic advisers will leave her job early next month, we now know. cristina romer, now the second top white house economic adviser to call it quits. james rosen picks up the story for us from the white house. so what are the leading private sector analysts saying today, james, about these july jobs numbers? what s the read on them? reporter: well martha, good afternoon. we re hear ....