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• Source: Buffalo News
• Date: June 22, 2008
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• Bylines: Patrick Lakamp , Susan Schulman
• Topics: Lottery
• Data Types: State Data , Mapping
• Description/Excerpt: If there's any neighborhood where players are bound to lose at the lottery, it's here, in the Broadway Fillmore section on Buffalo's East Side. Of the 20 census tracts in Erie County where lottery players fared the worst during 2007, 11 are in Buffalo. Six of those are in East Side neighborhoods that rank among the poorest in Erie County, including where Johnson buys his tickets. It's not that Johnson and others in this neighborhood have less luck at the lottery than those in wealthier areas. They lose more because of the types of lottery games that are most popular, and therefore most available in these neighborhoods, according to a Buffalo News analysis, the first of its kind to trace the outcome of lottery tickets sold by individual retailers.
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