NIGHTLY NEWS for July 2, 2010,

KATE SNOW, NBC NEWS GUEST ANCHOR: On the broadcast tonight, out of work. Another dismal report on jobs. And even the numbers that seem to look good are not.

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"Nightly News" begins now.

ANNOUNCER: From "NBC News" world headquarters in New York, this is "NBC Nightly News" with Brian Williams.

SNOW: Good evening, Brian is off tonight. I`m Kate Snow.

The Fourth of July weekend, traditionally a time to celebrate and relax with family and friends, but tonight, there is news that speaks to the reality for so many families on this holiday weekend. A growing number of Americans simply cannot find a job. Today, the Labor Department said 125,000 jobs were lost in June. The rate of unemployment actually dropped to 9.5 percent which, at first, may sound like good news, but it is not.

NBC`s Savannah Guthrie has been digging into the numbers. She joins us now from the White House.

Good evening, Savannah.

SAVANNAH GUTHRIE, NBC NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Good evening, Kate. The White House knew this wouldn`t be a good jobs Replica Jaeger LeCoultre Watches report, but it was worse than expected. Officials don`t think we`re sliding back into recession, but as one aid put it to me, no one likes where we are.

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GUTHRIE (voice-over): At Andrews Air Force Base today, the president acknowledged the economy has yet to catch a spark.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We are headed in the right direction. We`re not headed there fast enough for a lot of Americans. We`re not headed there fast enough for me either.

GUTHRIE: Congress headed for its Fourth of July recess without passing an extension of unemployment benefits, as today`s job report showed more Americans out of work. The June numbers, a net loss of 125,000 jobs, mainly because nearly a quarter of a million temporary census jobs were phased out. The private sector did add 83,000 jobs, but it was fewer than expected. And though the unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent, even that was more dark cloud than silver ling.

The government measures unemployment by counting those Jimmy shoes who are still looking for work. The rate went down because more people simply gave up.

STEVE LIESMAN, CNBC ANALYST: It`s a middling report. We still have job growth. We have had six months of job growth. But it`s nowhere near the kind of numbers we would hope for, and that you would expect coming out of the deep recession that we had.

GUTHRIE: Alarm is growing that there could be a double-dip recession, the name experts give to an economy that begins to recover only to slide backwards.

The trouble signs -- retail sales, which had been growing, have fallen again. Auto sales are expected to drop off after months of growth. Replica Watches
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