The country, at local resolution
Local Ledger brings jobs, income, housing, schools, and federal spending into one geographic research surface. Rankings make comparison possible without flattening places into one score.
A local economy should never require invented data.
I built public dashboards across every state, 3,143 counties, and 120 metro areas because I wanted local government data to be usable without losing where it came from, plus a simulator you can crash.
Open local-ledger.net50states
3,143counties
120metro areas
0fabricated data points
Primary-source backbone
The dashboards cite FRED, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, College Scorecard, and USAspending. The integrity counter reads 0 fabricated because missing data stays missing.
The simulator is the extravagant part
The economy simulator turns the observatory into a live policy lab. Change the forces acting on a place (employment, income, housing pressure, and public investment) and watch the local picture respond as a connected system instead of a stack of isolated charts. It makes counterfactuals tangible while keeping the real baseline data in view, so exploring a dramatic scenario never gets confused with reporting a fact.