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Lottery money spent on priazes, not education, WINK News

January 19, 2009
By Lauren Sweeney

FORT MYERS, Fla. - When you buy a lottery ticket, you hope to strike it rich and hope that your money is going to help support education in Florida."Money goes to K-12, there's money invested to build schools, and there's also the development of the bright futures scholarship program," said Randy Forrester, the Fort Myers district manager for the Florida Lottery.

But Call for Action found that when lottery sales increases, so does the amount of money given in prizes. That leaves a smaller piece of the the pie for education.

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