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The Powerball Lottery?....You guessed it. It's racist....

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LINK: Lottery accused of 'systemic racism' after massive Powerball payout

A Wednesday CNN piece spoke with critics knocking the lottery system as a form of systemic racism that targets poor Black and Brown communities across America.

The largest Powerball jackpot lottery ticket ever was recently sold in Altadena, California, with one lucky resident winning a historic $2.04 billion. The odds were 1 in 292.2 million.

Researches told CNN that despite the extreme low chance of winning, state lotteries still aggressively market the lottery and sell tickets to low-income communities at higher rates, thus misleading Americans to believe it will help them quickly generate wealth.

"These communities are disproportionately made up of Black and brown people. Critics say the consequence is that marginalized people will be driven into deeper debt by a system that is transferring wealth out of their communities," CNN’s Nicquel Terry Ellis and Justin Gamble wrote.

The national director of "Stop Predatory Gambling," Les Bernal, called the lottery a form of "consumer financial fraud" and a form of "systemic racism."

According to the research, lotteries are a regressive service, with low-income groups paying larger chunks of their budget on games versus their wealthier counterparts. Additionally, more money is spent on instant scratch-off games versus drawings like Powerball.

The piece also highlighted how stores selling lottery tickets are more likely to be located in poor communities of every state. The state money generated from the lottery sales often do not feed back into the community, but rather into colleges and higher-income school districts.

Jonathan Cohen, cited in the piece, appeared to disagree with the racial angle pushed by many researchers CNN spoke with. He claimed that the lottery often sees more players when the economy is suffering.

"And for folks who, especially Black and brown Americans, maybe face discrimination in the traditional economy, well, the lottery doesn’t discriminate, anyone has just as terrible odds of winning," Cohen said.

Fox News Digital recently spoke with a Philadelphia lawyer who explained how to walk away with the most money and the least collateral damage, should you find yourself in the extremely unlikely position of winning the lottery.

Andrew Santana, co-chair of the corporate department at Philadelphia law firm Fox Rothschild LLP, said not to sign the ticket until you fully understand whether you or the signatory’s information will become public.

It is important not to tell anyone "other than an attorney engaged specifically to assist in claiming the prize," he said, and "the people with whom you jointly purchased the ticket, if any."

If you want to remain an anonymous winner, and you're working with an attorney to maintain anonymity, it’s best to keep your normal routine until you're prepared for questions about the prize, he also said.
 
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LINK: Lottery accused of 'systemic racism' after massive Powerball payout

A Wednesday CNN piece spoke with critics knocking the lottery system as a form of systemic racism that targets poor Black and Brown communities across America.

The largest Powerball jackpot lottery ticket ever was recently sold in Altadena, California, with one lucky resident winning a historic $2.04 billion. The odds were 1 in 292.2 million.

Researches told CNN that despite the extreme low chance of winning, state lotteries still aggressively market the lottery and sell tickets to low-income communities at higher rates, thus misleading Americans to believe it will help them quickly generate wealth.

"These communities are disproportionately made up of Black and brown people. Critics say the consequence is that marginalized people will be driven into deeper debt by a system that is transferring wealth out of their communities," CNN’s Nicquel Terry Ellis and Justin Gamble wrote.

The national director of "Stop Predatory Gambling," Les Bernal, called the lottery a form of "consumer financial fraud" and a form of "systemic racism."

According to the research, lotteries are a regressive service, with low-income groups paying larger chunks of their budget on games versus their wealthier counterparts. Additionally, more money is spent on instant scratch-off games versus drawings like Powerball.

The piece also highlighted how stores selling lottery tickets are more likely to be located in poor communities of every state. The state money generated from the lottery sales often do not feed back into the community, but rather into colleges and higher-income school districts.

Jonathan Cohen, cited in the piece, appeared to disagree with the racial angle pushed by many researchers CNN spoke with. He claimed that the lottery often sees more players when the economy is suffering.

"And for folks who, especially Black and brown Americans, maybe face discrimination in the traditional economy, well, the lottery doesn’t discriminate, anyone has just as terrible odds of winning," Cohen said.

Fox News Digital recently spoke with a Philadelphia lawyer who explained how to walk away with the most money and the least collateral damage, should you find yourself in the extremely unlikely position of winning the lottery.

Andrew Santana, co-chair of the corporate department at Philadelphia law firm Fox Rothschild LLP, said not to sign the ticket until you fully understand whether you or the signatory’s information will become public.

It is important not to tell anyone "other than an attorney engaged specifically to assist in claiming the prize," he said, and "the people with whom you jointly purchased the ticket, if any."

If you want to remain an anonymous winner, and you're working with an attorney to maintain anonymity, it’s best to keep your normal routine until you're prepared for questions about the prize, he also said.
Ignorant. It’s like they don’t even realize there’s a region called Appalachia that is pre dominantly white and as poor as any ghetto in America. Guess Appalachia doesn’t count. Not to mention, claiming a lottery is racist is moronic to begin with.
 
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I don't think the lottery is racist per se but it definitely feeds off poor people and black people are disproportionately poor and thus are disproportionately affected. It doesn't have to do with their skin color but rather they're socioeconomic status.

The lottery is a scheme to get people to give the government money without taxing them. If you try to tax people then they scream so the government tricks them into giving away their money. By and large, the lottery takes from the poor and gives to the non-poor.

The Left has a facade about wanting to help the poor and I think that's pretty much chipped away at this point, with the most blatant recent examples being the college loan forgiveness and the response to the pandemic, both of which hurt poor people, but the lottery is another example. The Left likes the lottery because it gives the government more money to spend, even though the lottery hurts the poor.
 
I don't think the lottery is racist per se but it definitely feeds off poor people and black people are disproportionately poor and thus are disproportionately affected. It doesn't have to do with their skin color but rather they're socioeconomic status.

The lottery is a scheme to get people to give the government money without taxing them. If you try to tax people then they scream so the government tricks them into giving away their money. By and large, the lottery takes from the poor and gives to the non-poor.

The Left has a facade about wanting to help the poor and I think that's pretty much chipped away at this point, with the most blatant recent examples being the college loan forgiveness and the response to the pandemic, both of which hurt poor people, but the lottery is another example. The Left likes the lottery because it gives the government more money to spend, even though the lottery hurts the poor.
It’s optional, don’t play. It’s basically just extremely low probability gambling.
 
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LINK: Lottery accused of 'systemic racism' after massive Powerball payout

A Wednesday CNN piece spoke with critics knocking the lottery system as a form of systemic racism that targets poor Black and Brown communities across America.

The largest Powerball jackpot lottery ticket ever was recently sold in Altadena, California, with one lucky resident winning a historic $2.04 billion. The odds were 1 in 292.2 million.

Researches told CNN that despite the extreme low chance of winning, state lotteries still aggressively market the lottery and sell tickets to low-income communities at higher rates, thus misleading Americans to believe it will help them quickly generate wealth.

"These communities are disproportionately made up of Black and brown people. Critics say the consequence is that marginalized people will be driven into deeper debt by a system that is transferring wealth out of their communities," CNN’s Nicquel Terry Ellis and Justin Gamble wrote.

The national director of "Stop Predatory Gambling," Les Bernal, called the lottery a form of "consumer financial fraud" and a form of "systemic racism."

According to the research, lotteries are a regressive service, with low-income groups paying larger chunks of their budget on games versus their wealthier counterparts. Additionally, more money is spent on instant scratch-off games versus drawings like Powerball.

The piece also highlighted how stores selling lottery tickets are more likely to be located in poor communities of every state. The state money generated from the lottery sales often do not feed back into the community, but rather into colleges and higher-income school districts.

Jonathan Cohen, cited in the piece, appeared to disagree with the racial angle pushed by many researchers CNN spoke with. He claimed that the lottery often sees more players when the economy is suffering.

"And for folks who, especially Black and brown Americans, maybe face discrimination in the traditional economy, well, the lottery doesn’t discriminate, anyone has just as terrible odds of winning," Cohen said.

Fox News Digital recently spoke with a Philadelphia lawyer who explained how to walk away with the most money and the least collateral damage, should you find yourself in the extremely unlikely position of winning the lottery.

Andrew Santana, co-chair of the corporate department at Philadelphia law firm Fox Rothschild LLP, said not to sign the ticket until you fully understand whether you or the signatory’s information will become public.

It is important not to tell anyone "other than an attorney engaged specifically to assist in claiming the prize," he said, and "the people with whom you jointly purchased the ticket, if any."

If you want to remain an anonymous winner, and you're working with an attorney to maintain anonymity, it’s best to keep your normal routine until you're prepared for questions about the prize, he also said.
Lmao Democrats WTF?
The lottery is playing on people's piss poor decision making ability.
Poor people tend to make piss poor decisions that's why they are poor ...pretty simple really
 
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