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• Source: Charlotte Observer
• Date: March 27, 2006
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• Bylines: Adam Bell , Jim Morrill
• Topics: Business , Demographics
• Data Types: State Data , Mapping
• Description/Excerpt: More than 5,000 lottery retailers are spread throughout every county in the state. But lower-income people are more than twice as likely as wealthier residents to live near one, an Observer examination of lottery data found. For example, north Charlotte from the Belmont neighborhood up North Tryon Street is one of Mecklenburg's poorest areas. But it has more lottery outlets per capita than anywhere else in the county. By contrast, the affluent Myers Park-Eastover area has among the fewest sellers.