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• Source: Columbus Dispatch
• Date: March 16, 2008
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• Bylines: Spencer Hunt
• Topics: Lottery
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: The Ohio Lottery collects more than $2 billion a year from people willing to take their chances on long odds, and the state hopes to make millions more this year with the addition of a Keno game. Many lottery players, like Spaulding, have low incomes. Any adult can play the lottery, but a Dispatch analysis found that the state makes most of its money in lower-income neighborhoods. Lottery sales last year in Ohio communities and neighborhoods where the median household income was less than $38,000 were twice as high as those posted in areas where median incomes exceeded $60,600. There also were nearly twice as many lottery winners in lower-income communities and nearly twice as many stores selling lottery tickets.
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