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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Paying for prizes that aren't there, TampaBays10

By Mike Deeson
July 11, 2008

St. Petersburg, Florida - Lottery players in Florida spent more than $4 billion buying tickets, but some of them were trying to win a prize that was no longer there.

Florida is among more than 20 states that still sell scratch off tickets, even after the big prizes have been awarded. Although scratch off tickets have a warning on the front and the back in small print that the top prizes might be gone when the ticket is purchased, most people we talked to had no idea it was happening.

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