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Click here to view and here to listen to Jon Sanders discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina’s government-run lottery gets most of its money from the…

The North Carolina Education Lottery was sold as a way to boost education spending, but N.C. boasts the same problem found in other lottery states: a declining rate of spending for education, especially in comparison with the rest of the state budget. Furthermore, poverty, unemployment, and property tax rates remain the best predictors of lottery sales.