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State Lottery gives out nearly $7M in last quarter

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By The Associated Press

Monday, Jan 05, 2009 - 11:14:23 am CST

The Nebraska Lottery says it gave out nearly $7 million to various beneficiaries over the past three months.

The lottery says more than $6.7 million collected from scratch ticket and lotto ticket sales was distributed last week. State law requires most of the money to go to education and environmental funds.

The bulk of the money collected in the last quarter — just more than $3 million — went to the Nebraska Environmental Trust Fund. Another $1.3 million went to the Education Innovation Fund, and $1.7 million went to the Nebraska Scholarship Fund. Nearly $675,000 went to the Nebraska State Fair Support and Improvement Fund, and more than $67,000 was given to the Compulsive Gamblers Assistance Fund.

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Darwin Phillips of Lincoln holds up the Powerball tickets he bought on Friday at a convenience store in town. (Jacob Hannah)

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Bob wrote on January 5, 2009 1:21 pm:
" 'Nearly $675,000 went to the Nebraska State Fair Support and Improvement Fund'

Is it GI or Lincoln that gets this? Will the fair moving impact this benefit? "
wait a minute wrote on January 5, 2009 1:38 pm:
" If memory serves me right the legislation transferring that money to the state fair effort said something about it being in Lincoln correct? So shouldn't that be gone now that the fair is moving, or did they replace it with other legislation requiring GI to come up with the matching cash? "
my bad wrote on January 5, 2009 1:46 pm:
" Oops, never mind that last comment. The matching funds have to be provided by the most populous city in the county that the fair is held in, so the funds can continue if GI comes up with the match and I believe they passed a restaurant or general sales tax to do so. "
ET wrote on January 5, 2009 2:08 pm:
" How can this be? WE don't allow gambling in Nebraska!m Just ask the Good Life organization who fights against gambling in Nebraska. By the way don't let the good life group tell you about all the evils gambling brings the state. If you have ever been to Iowa you have all seen the Ne cars in the Iowa casinos. Oh no, they will bring the evil back here and leave their money in IOWA to help pay taxes, help with education expenses. Time to wake up Nebraska and get over our better than though image some of us have. "
baffled wrote on January 5, 2009 2:15 pm:
" Why didn't more go towards the education and scholarship funds? Sad :( "

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