shadowstats.com has proven to be a good watchdog for the U.S. Government statistics. This revised growth number is anemic.
John Williams continues:
… what had been reported the month before, where the headline November 2011 unemployment rate purportedly plunged by 0.4%, from 9.0% in October, to 8.6% in November. The revised data in December showed a more-consistent comparison of 0.2% drop in unemployment from 8.9% in October, to 8.7% in November.
It is a shame that the revised stats are not reported with the same intensity as the preliminary stats which are nearly always optimistic.