North Carolina Lottery Thriving, Gives $98 Million To Schools

The North Carolina is thriving. While other states are having a hard time selling, such is not the case in North Carolina. They are breaking records with their amount of sales.

The North Carolina Education Lottery has made a transfer to schools that has become the largest in the history of the lottery. They have transferred $98 million.

"We are incredibly proud to have raised this amount of money for education in just two years of operations. All of us at the lottery are ecstatic that our efforts to increase sales are really starting to pay off," said Tom Shaheen, the lotteries Director.

One of the benefits of having the lottery money is schools will be able to reduce class sizes. Other portions of the money will go to college scholarships.

The lottery sales are crushing numbers from last year. So far this year, $114 million more has been raised that the previous year. Up until now, the lottery has given $628 million to North Carolina public schools.

April 24, 2008
Posted By Terry Goodwin
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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