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Lotteries: America’s $70 Billion Shame

Derek Thompson, THE ATLANTIC (The Atlantic) โ€” This floored me: Americans in the 43 states where lotteries are legal spent $70 billion on lotto games in 2014. Seventy billion? I thought. No, thatโ€™s impossible. Thatโ€™s more than $230 for every man, woman, and child in those statesโ€”or $300 for each adult. But itโ€™s true: According to […]

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