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The Center for Public Policy Looks at Texas Lottery Players...

and You Can Too!

The primary goal of the Center for Public Policy's (CPP) demographic study for the Texas Lottery Commission is to provide a snapshot of who is most likely to engage in the Texas Lottery games.  To capture the demographics of both players and non-players, the CPP surveyed 1,702 Texas citizens between mid-September and early October of 2007.

Read the report.

 

  The CPP study incorporates an innovative interactive geographic feature that the online viewer can use to dig deeper into areas of individual interest. For example, if you interested in finding out how many females living in the San Antonio area play the Texas Lottery—or any other combination of demographic data and survey responses— you can do so by downloading the customized software and data.  Learn more by trying it out yourself!

 

 

Check out Professor Murray's New Blog

Long considered one of Texas's leading political analysts, UH's Richard Murray now has a blog on Houston's ABC affiliate's website. For timely updates on this year's exciting political landscape, check out Prof 13.

 

 
Congressman Nick Lampson Speaks to CPP Government Interns

The Center for Public Policy's spring internship program is underway with a record-breaking number of 54 interns working in Houston area offices. Check out Congressman Lampson's visit with the interns.

 

 

Just How Do Those College Rankings Really Work?

Hobby and Granato Explain the Rankings by U.S. News & World Report

This year about 100,000 college-bound students will graduate from Texas high schools. They will visit campuses, take PSAT and SAT tests, consult the U. S. News and World Report (USN&WR) rankings, and fill out maybe 250,000 applications.  The students and their parents (300,000 people) will check their mailboxes and e-mail millions of times to get the results.

 

Getting into college takes up a lot of time in the last two years of high school.

 

USN&WR’s  “America’s Best Colleges” issue is their swimsuit issue—academic cheesecake.

 

Presidents and governing boards consider the rankings and hire consultants to improve them.

 

Bill Hobby and Jim Granato analyzed the various factors used in this widely read ranking system.

 

Learn how the rankings work by viewing the study.          

 

 

 

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