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Of those. manufacturing, only about 6,000 created there. transportation, warehousing, professional and business services these tend to be the jobs that pay a little more. you want to see more job creation in that category. that's critical. and quickly, we talked so much about the sequester and all of the budget cuts and what that means for government jobs the private sector 68ed 161,000. and the public sector did manage to eke out a gain for the month. victor, brianna. >> christine romans in new york. thank you. for so many months, the public sector was cutting so many jobs but good to see u...

Shore a little more than six months after super storm sandy devastated the jersey shore. the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating recovery after every one of the 521 homes were damaged or destroyed by sandy last october. many homes still remain in piles of rubble as we saw driving into the area this morning. christie estimates some 39,000 families still remain displaced in new jersey, that is down from 161,000 the day after the storm. but harry will be making his way into seaside heights here where we are in moments from now. earlier we got to aerials in a fact of him touring the area...

The real headline is what happened to the numbers in november and december. the government now reports 247,000 jobs were added in november. that's up from the original mark of 161,000. and, by the way, that's the highest mark since february of last year. december jobs were -- were revised from 155,000 to 196,000. back to january's numbers. here are the sectors that saw the biggest changes -- retail added 33,000 jobs. construction added 28,000. health care added 23,000. transportation lost 14,000. and government, once again, lost 9,000. mostly at the federal level. well, if it's friday, and it'...

In the unemployment rate. >> ezra, that's good news. talk to leigh's point, though, about consumer confidence, what's your take on where consumers are and how that's going to drive the recovery moving forward? >> consumer confidence kind of it's tough to establish, i guess, to use an annoying word, causality, right? consumer confidence will go down if the economy's worse, it will go up. if we get a couple of good jobs reports and people are hiring, consumer confidence goes up. it's not independent, though, of course, it does have its own effect and people are concerned. i want to add one more ...

Potentially i guess millions of dollars in fines and maybe even be barred from trading on the cme group. he's just under investigation at this stage. >> well for the rest of us in the real world apassengerly happiness has a price. a new study that says here's how much it takes to make the average person happy, right? >> reporter: right. i should also preface this by saying there's a lot of studies out there that tried to determine the so-called financial price of happiness. it also depends on what they look at, whether they look at wealth or income or various other things. the latest 2001 weig...