Childcare Costs

If you are feeling the squeeze in your budget from rising childcare costs, you aren’t alone. This year, parents are reporting increases in childcare costs, which have been on the rise since 2020. According to a study done by Care.com, respondents spend 24% of their...
The Art of Ranking Places

The Art of Ranking Places

We have all seen them, lists of the “top ten places for….”. Some are good, others not so much. With our release of the quality of life series, it is inevitable that the data will be used to add to the ever growing list of best and worst places. We recently were...

Does Money Make You Happy?

In the Panorama segmentation system, the most affluent segments are assigned to the lowest numbers with 01 One Percenters holding the top spot for affluence. Does money translate into happiness, or at least a better quality of life? To answer that question, we...

Choose Your Own Adventure

Growing up, there was a series of books that was very popular among my classmates. It was a variety of different stories, but they all had the same theme—choose your own adventure. You would read a section, and then at the end it would instruct you to turn to page 27...