Every number, dated.
piomover's comparisons are built from public federal and market data — refreshed automatically every month, watched daily for staleness, and labeled honestly when a figure is an estimate. This page shows the live state of each pipeline.
11 of 11 categories fresh — all systems normal.
How the refresh works
- Monthly refresh. On the 1st of each month, every category re-pulls from its source APIs. Sources publish on monthly-to-annual cycles, so nothing here is ever more than one publishing cycle behind.
- Daily watchdog. Every day, an automated check verifies no category has gone more than 40 days without fresh data. Failures alert the team immediately — data can't silently rot.
- Graceful degradation. If a source has an outage, the affected metric falls back to its most recent good value and is labeled with its vintage.
Editorially verified facts
State tax rates, abortion/LGBTQ+/cannabis/firearm law summaries, and Medicaid-expansion status are curated from primary sources rather than APIs. They were last verified May 2026 and are re-checked at least every January, plus whenever a major law changes.
Where we still estimate
A few metrics have no free live feed yet. They're always labeled “(est.)” in reports, and dollar estimates are indexed to the live BLS CPI so they track inflation:
- Childcare costs — anchored to Child Care Aware 2023 state price levels, CPI-indexed forward.
- Moving & storage costs — 2024 industry baselines, CPI-indexed. Live quote integration is planned.
- School spending — NCES FY2020 finance data, the latest complete federal release; newer vintages are adopted automatically as they publish.
- Pediatrician access & family-friendliness — internal composite estimates, marked as such.
Questions about methodology? Every metric's report card cites its exact source and vintage inline. piomover never sells data and never stores raw IP addresses.