{"id":1034,"date":"2011-03-29T09:35:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T07:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2011-03-27T19:36:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:36:34","slug":"interesting-facts-about-the-lotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Facts about the Lotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-380\" title=\"Topic - Interesting\" src=\"http:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Interesting-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Who really profits from the lotteries? $53 billion in tickets were sold in 2006. Half of the revenue was paid out as winnings, and 35% of the tickets went to the state government where the tickets are sold while the rest went to administration and commission costs.<br \/>\nHowever, every year $500 million in tickets are never claimed.<br \/>\nAdditionally, a third of all lottery winners actually end up filing for bankruptcy.<br \/>\nWinning the lottery may not solve all financial issues and can\u2019t always buy happiness. 35% of lottery winners are just as happy as they were before they won, and 8% of couples divorced after their lottery win.<br \/>\nThe chances that you will be a lottery winner are slim- being killed by a meteorite is more likely than winning the lottery. As one can see, winning the lotto may not always be the best for everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinemba.com\/blog\/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-lotto\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlinemba.com\/wp-content\/themes\/OnlineMBA\/images\/lotto.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Lotto\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.OnlineMBA.com\">OnlineMBA.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who really profits from the lotteries? $53 billion in tickets were sold in 2006. Half of the revenue was paid out as winnings, and 35% of the tickets went to the state government where the tickets are sold while the rest went to administration and commission costs. However, every year $500 million in tickets are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-finds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outofmymind.scanlen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}