Obama: Too many people still looking for work

The president is urging Congress to pass a tax cut extension for families making less than $250,000 a year. He says the “last thing” the nation should do is push higher taxes on middle-class families.

The government reported that private employers added 163,000 jobs in July, the best pace of hiring in five months. But the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent, from 8.2 percent in June.

Obama says the economy is not improving fast enough for many workers. But he noted that the private sector has created 4.5 million new jobs in the past 29 months.