I was recently engaged to help Orlando Sentinel reporters Leslie Postal and Anne Martin with data analysis for their extensively-researched article “How Bright Futures Favors Florida’s Wealthier Families.”
If you want to explore the data in your own community, here is a set of maps and charts that let you see the distribution of lottery revenue and Bright Futures awards in most of the state’s major metro areas. Scroll over any zip code for more contextual information. I’d encourage researchers and policymakers in other states to look into their own version of this story.
