The app mashes up Census data with economic statistics from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Bureau of Labor Statistics and provides the latest economic indicators that drive business hiring, sales, and production decisions throughout the nation in real time.

WHITEHOUSE: Building-Blocks of a 21st Century Digital Government

Public choice theory explains the incentives and behavior of the tens of thousands of government employees who work in the bowels of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Treasury, Office of Management and Budget, Economics and Statistics Administration, and countless other agencies who generate and massage spreadsheets day in and day out.

FORBES: Distorted Government Statistics Endanger Our Economic Health

By last count, no fewer than 106 federal agencies are tasked with gathering statistics, the most important being the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, U.S. Treasury, Internal Revenue Services, Office of Management and Budget, and Economics and Statistics Administration.

FORBES: It's Time For A Transparency-In-Government-Statistics Law

During the first quarter of 2011, using income tax collections, we were reporting stronger employment and income numbers then at that time were the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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