NC lottery: Who's buying, how much and where do they live?

Name: NC lottery: Who's buying, how much and where do they live?
Uploaded: 2026-03-30T23:44:21Z
Duration: 3 min 34 s
Description: Opponents have long argued that state lotteries are a tax on the poor. Twenty years after the first ticket was sold in North Carolina, WRAL Investigates examined lottery sales numbers and compared them to county wealth rankings.

FOX LOCAL Raleigh · Mar 30, 2026 · 3m 34s

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Opponents have long argued that state lotteries are a tax on the poor. Twenty years after the first ticket was sold in North Carolina, WRAL Investigates examined lottery sales numbers and compared them to county wealth rankings.