Have you ever met someone who hates spending money? either it's saving it or spending it everyone relies on it. some people save for school and some people spend it at the lottery. what if there was a way for you to spend at the lottery and for lottery to help you in school. The lottery is a good beneficial for education because, it helps school funding and make more jobs and scholarships.
The lottery can help school funding in some states. even states who depend on funding from the lotteries face great difficulties ( Worth 58-65). education is by far the most important beneficiary of the lottery (Davis 43-44). the lottery has supported education from the peak of its existence.
“Lottery proceeds are dedicated to public education and it has raised more than $600 million over the past decade.” (The Associated, Press) millions of dollars have been raised for public education through the lottery (The Associated Press). lottery money is also used for new school buildings (Worth 58-65). they pay for new buildings to reduce class sizes. more buildings means more jobs.
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there are other jobs that can be found not in the gambling industry. “More than 8,000 jobs in Georgia are directly attributable to the state lottery” (Worth 58-65). states with lotteries provide jobs ( Worth 58-65 ). lottery money is also used to hire more teachers (Worth 58-65). with the new building and classrooms being built that means more teachers will be needed. along with jobs it gives people hope (Cambell ). it gives them hope that they will get enough money to pay off their house or pay for college. not everyone can pay for college so they apply for
Gambling and the lottery is a tax on the poor. The Texas Tech University did research on the people who played the Texas Lottery and discovered that people with no high school diploma spent a monthly average of $179. They also did a study on what the average is on college graduates and the spend an average of $49 a month. As well as the Texas Tech study other studies show that people who live in lower income ZIP-codes spend more money on the lottery than anyone else. Gambling and the lottery is a tax
Alabama is one of seven states that does not have a lottery system. Because of this, Alabama is missing out on millions of dollars per year. In fact, lottery systems generated $65.5 billion dollars in 2012, twenty-five of which goes directly to state funded projects (Isidore). That is an average of over a billion and a half dollars in revenue per state per year. If Alabama did approve a lottery system, the money it generated would go to education and healthcare. Alabama ranks forty-fifth and forty-sixth in these two areas respectively out of fifty states.
The lottery offers a wonderful opportunity to possibly win millions of dollars. While this might seems amazing, it might not be as wonderful as imagined. In fact, maybe even the opposite might true as stated by numerous studies and research done since the 1970s.
The concept of the lottery is the same throughout every state, people have money and are interested in “playing the odds”; the revenue from these people is then divided and used to benefit organizations of the state’s choice. Exactly where the money goes to is what differs from state to state. Some states put all the revenue from the lottery into one trust fund that is allocated for a more broad and generalized group. Other states target specific programs such as, preserving natural parks or assisting the educational system with additional funds. The State of Alabama does not have a lottery and its locals are the ones missing out. Due to the lack of the lottery in Alabama, those who choose to play the lottery must travel out of the state, which means their money goes to other state’s lotteries benefiting that states programs and ultimately its residents. By keeping the peoples money in the state a lottery will open an endless amount of opportunities to better state supported programs and the state as a whole.
The Texas Lottery negatively impacts the people that play the lottery and the programs that are supposed to benefit from the proceeds. Because of the big dream of winning, the lottery has taken a toll on Texans. “People believe that the Texas Lottery is their only chance to strike it rich” (Buckland, 2010). There is not near enough money going towards the Texas Education
To what extent is the lottery beneficial to the North Carolina education system? What is a lottery? A lottery is used to raise money for the government and for people to win big money prizes. The North Carolina Education Lottery is a government-run organization that funds various education programs and school systems in North Carolina. If one hundred percent of lottery money went to education, it would only cover nineteen percent of the state’s total expenses for schools. The lottery is not beneficial to education in North Carolina if schools struggle to gain instructional supplies, and if the government has to cut spending for school funding levels to barely make it over the national average.
Alabama is out of options for revenue, and it looks like a lottery is their last hope. According to Kim Chandler, “ Bentley said lotteries were outdated…[but] it was the only revenue option left.” Which means that Bentley believes lotteries are old school and outdated, but they are Alabama's last option for revenue. Alabama is in a huge debt and a lottery seems like it could bring in the money Alabama needs. According to Jeff Guo, “ A lottery… [could] bring in over $280 million a year.” Which means that with a lottery, Alabama could be pulled out of debt. It can also bring in more money to provide payment to make our schools, roads, and buildings better. Even though a lottery has its problems it is also the only option Alabama has left. According
The lottery to many people is an object of fiction, much as elusive as the unicorn; or the leprechaun's gold. They could buy a nice house, new car, pay off their loans, etc. Their life could be so much more comfortable. This is magical and all, but depending on the lottery is a gamble, and those dreams could easily be crushed if gambling becomes nationally illegal. No more boats or continental vacations or as much food as one can eat.
However, when you compare these findings with other sources, it is clear that Ingram is stretching the truth and exaggerating his numbers. According to the NSPL, Ingram is correct with the fact that 34% of the funds received do go to various public programs (i.e. education). However, what he does not show is how this is calculated. This is because, 50 to 60% of the total proceeds are used to pay for lottery winnings. While the commission to retailers is accounting for between: 5 to 9% of earnings. And the operating expenses for the state are 1 to 10% of sales. The remaining 34% is used to support state programs. This is showing how Ingram is dramatizing the total impact of the lottery. Moreover, the state lotto commission has given $534 million to these programs for unclaimed
To support her side of the argument and to answer these counterarguments Jimenez share a few statistics. She tells us that the New York Times reported in 2002, that the state-run lotteries brought in a revenue of $20 billion dollars, and that this is only 4% of the states income. She also tells us about one study in a report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy that shows people who earned $10,000 a year bought almost three times as many lottery tickets than those who made $50,000 or more a year. This shows us that more poor people buy lotto tickets, so more poor people are paying the taxes that benefit education and social services.
In the short story, “ The lottery” by Shirley Jackson the purpose of the lottery is for a religious purpose. This book is about a town of 300 people who still a tradition of stoning people to death. To make it random they hold a lottery. In the story a woman named Tessie Hutchinson gets stoned. I know the purpose of the lottery by the fact that “ No one wanted to upset the tradition that was represented by the black box” they use for lotteries.
Lotteries bring in great revenue for a lot of educational programs. Some people think that lotteries take revenue away from other businesses and education budgets. There are many states that are helping kids make it through school with the assistance from the lottery. With this is mind, we can take a look at exactly how much the lottery is helping fund the educational programs and state budgets.
In Israel for example, The Lottery is a public controlled managed system of gambling which actually contributes greatly to the Israeli community because the Lottery reinvests the revenues to develop and build projects for the public welfare as in the examples I mentioned.
An analysis of how the lottery is operated and regulated can help identify the negative facets that influence society. Determining what demographic most often participates in the lottery can aid in finding the best way to minimize the social impact of gambling. Along with minimizing the negative effects of the lottery, what people believe the chances of winning are can lead them to false faith in ‘investing’ money into the lottery. Where the money goes also influences people to play, despite the lack of certainty. Looking back to history helps track progression and identifies patterns. The lottery and its ongoing negative effects can still be fixed, leaving America with a safer and more beneficial form of revenue and entertainment.
When anybody buys lottery tickets it can be-wither the money they get to do academic things. “...some state legislatures have used lottery receipts as an excuse to cut normal budget allotments to education.” source F states. This clearly states that their money can be cut from the normal budget in the schools. This means that if less people buy lottery tickets there is a chance that schools will be able to fund more academic functions. In source F they say the 1990-91 school year the lottery gave 691.2 million dollars