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The Mega Millions jackpot is now more than US$1 billion – where does all that lottery profit really go?

  • Written by Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis
The Mega Millions jackpot is now more than US$1 billion – where does all that lottery profit really go?Fewer Americans play the lottery today than did in the 1970s.alisafarov/shutterstock.com

The Mega Millions jackpot drawing on Oct. 19 has soared to US$1 billion.

In the middle of the 20th century, when lotteries first started in the U.S., they were sold to states as a way to benefit the American public. That suggests that bigger and bigger jackpots...

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