Data On Americans? There’s An App For That...

Carol Morello, Washington Post
Fri, 09/07/2012 - 3:00am

It may be premature to call it a runaway hit, but in the first month since the Census Bureau released its first mobile application, it’s been downloaded more than 32,000 times. The app, called America’s Economy, provides updated statistics from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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