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N.C. Lottery Five Years Old |
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Monday, 28 March 2011 |
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The North Carolina Education Lottery turns five years old Wednesday. Lottery advocates say all North Carolinians are really winners since it requires much of its profits go to support education.
The North Carolina Education Lottery turns five years old Wednesday.
So controversial initially that it took a tie-breaking N.C. Senate vote by the then lieutenant governor, now Gov. Bev Perdue, to pass, the lottery is pretty much passing everywhere in North Carolina now.
Lottery tickets costing between $1 and $20 are sold at more than 5,500 retail outlets across the state for several hundred different games, many of which come and go. Lottery sales netted about $1.43 billion for education statewide in its first four full fiscal years of operation.
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