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Statistics of a Lottery Winner
Shrien Alshabasy came out with new lottery winner stats. You can read the entire article here. Here are a few snippets:
44% of winners spend their entire winnings in five years!
2% say that they are less happy with all that cash.
95% of people remained married after they won the lottery and those with unmarried partners are 100% still in that relationship
Only 17% of families ask for winnings from winners of $100,000 to $500,000 while 29% ask for money from winners of $4+ million.
Indiana Hoosier Lottery Financial Release
Via Indiana Hoosier Lottery –
Hoosier Lottery officials announced Tuesday that the Lottery is providing the State of Indiana with more than $250 million in surplus revenue for fiscal year 2014.
The State uses the contributions to support the Build Indiana Fund, pensions for local firefighters and police officers and retirement funds for Indiana teachers.The $250 million in surplus revenue for fiscal year 2014 is a 12 percent increase from $224 million in fiscal year 2013. Although final audited figures will not be available until later this year, preliminary totals show sales were $1.018 billion for fiscal year 2014.
The rest of the article is here
Hoosier Lottery On Pace for Almost $1 Billion in Revenue
Hoosier Lottery officials are announcing that the organization is on pace for record breaking numbers in revenue. Per Indiana Economic Digest:
The Hoosier Lottery is on pace for a record revenue year, thanks in part to to higher Powerball ticket prices and jackpots. The lottery projects that revenue for its 2013 fiscal year ending June 30 will be $945 million, about 9.5 percent more than last year’s record of $855.6 million. The impact on Indiana coffers won’t be as impressive. Lottery officials are forecasting net income at $227.6 million, about $200,000 more than last year’s result.
There is one catch to the whole record breaking revenue celebration though…..
One reason the record sales won’t bring more income to the state for the fiscal year is that the lottery is spending about twice as much as it did last year on advertising and promotion—nearly $23 million. The commission forecasts total operating expenses will come in at $716.5 million, more than 10 percent higher than last year’s $645 million.
I still think a better investment than Powerball tickets is this. It just lacks the excitement.
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