In 2007, the California Budget Project reported on the possible privatization of the state lottery. It reported that the poor, non-white, urban and less educated spend a higher portion of their income on the lottery than other demographics.
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Despite a mountain of evidence, states continue to partner with powerful gambling corporations to promote ever more extreme forms of