Education
North Carolina Education Lottery
Introduction The North Carolina Education Lottery was born in controversy and division, having squeaked through the General Assembly by a narrow, one-vote margin in 2005. In the almost 20 years…
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Good news! Exploiting the poor now smells like barbecue
As you may know, the poorest and most economically distressed counties have the highest ticket sales per adult of North Carolina Education Lottery offerings. This has been a consistent finding: Today, The News &…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
This weekend on Carolina Journal Radio
With all of the recent debate about reducing health care costs, there’s been little discussion about opening up competition by scrapping the state’s certificate-of-need law. Katherine Restrepo analyzes North Carolina’s…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Where does the lottery money really go?
View in your browser. The debate over funding North Carolina’s public schools will continue for many lifetimes to come, but the question of how much is funded by the lottery…
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Teacher recruitment, lottery spending, e-cigarettes among JLF researchers’ interests
The Kernersville News, Laurinburg Exchange, and Mount Airy News published John Locke Foundation Director of Research and Education Studies Terry Stoops‘ recent column on North Carolina’s challenge recruiting teachers in…
Education
A reminder about who plays the lottery
The poorest and most economically distressed counties have the highest lottery ticket sales per adult. This has been a consistent finding. It is worth bearing in mind as the House…
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Education My Eye
The Asheville Citizen-Times’ Answer Man, John Boyle, asks why the North Carolina Education Lottery sponsors a NASCAR truck. I would have hazarded it had something to do with educating the…
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The State Shouldn’t Be In The Gambling Business At All
There’s a lot of talk about the state lottery since Gov. McCrory told Monday night’s State of the State audience that lottery revenues should be looked at to ensure they’re…
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The House Always Wins
But are we talking about the gambling house that profits off gambling machines or the statehouse that profits off the Education Lottery? Those behind the video gaming industry will exhaust…
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Will “Education” Be Removed From Lottery’s Name?
This Daily Tar Heel story carries an interesting comment from state Rep. Rick Glazier about the state-run lottery. N.C. Rep. Rick Glazier, D-Cumberland, voted in 2005 to initiate the lottery.…
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Is That Your Final Answer?
Everybody knew only organized crime (a term which does not exclude the General Assembly) could be trusted with gambling. Mere citizens lack the whatnot vested in the winners of popularity…
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Lottery Good, Card Games Bad?
Nowhere is there a better example of why state government should stay out of the gambling business than this. The Cherokee tribe in western North Carolina wants to add table…