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State Lottery Continues to Spend 70% of Revenue on Prizes

Oct 14, 2020Jerry CoxArkansas LotteryArkansas Lottery

The Arkansas Lottery continues to spend more than 70% of its monthly revenue on prizes, according to reports filed with the Governor’s Office.

The reports show the Arkansas Lottery took in more than $47.5 million in September.

Out of that money, $33.4 million was spent on prizes for lottery players — roughly 70.4% of the Lottery’s revenue for the month.

Less than $7.7 million went to college scholarships — about 16.2% of the Lottery’s revenue.

For perspective, the typical state lottery budgets about 60% of its revenue for prizes and about 30% for education.

All told, since Fiscal Year 2021 began last July the Arkansas Lottery has taken in nearly $147 million, but only about 16 cents out of every dollar has gone toward college scholarships.

Below is a breakdown of Lottery revenue, scholarship budgeting, and prize spending so far this fiscal year.

Lottery Scholarship Spending

Month	Gross Lottery Revenue	Paid to Scholarships	% Gross Revenue
July	$49,780,369.99	$8,592,573.93	17.3%
August	49,672,105.04	7,862,917.44	15.8%
September	47,501,224.72	7,691,576.99	16.2%
Total	$146,953,699.75	$24,147,068.36	16.4%

Lottery Prize Spending

Month	Gross Lottery Revenue	Total Prizes	% Going to Prizes
July	49,780,369.99	35,641,717.48	71.6%
August	49,672,105.04	35,023,856.83	70.5%
September	47,501,224.72	33,422,556.14	70.4%
Total	146,953,699.75	104,088,130.45	70.8%

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Supreme Court Temporarily Allows RU-486 By Mail

Oct 13, 2020Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

The U.S. Supreme Court is temporarily letting dangerous abortion drugs like RU-486 be dispensed by mail, according to news sources.

A federal court in Maryland recently struck down an FDA rule that requires women to go in-person to get abortion pills.

The Trump Administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the FDA’s rule, but the U.S. Supreme Court has opted not to do that for now.

Arkansas law requires abortion drugs to be administered in-person. That’s one reason Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit over the FDA rule last May. If courts rule that RU-486 can be dispensed by mail, that threatens to undermine Arkansas’ good law.

Letting abortionists distribute chemical abortion drugs by mail could lead to many more abortions, which will cost unborn children their lives.

We also know abortion drugs are dangerous and can cause a number of serious health complications — even death.

In its decision, the U. S. Supreme asked the lower court that blocked the FDA rule to “promptly consider” in the next 40 days whether or not the lower court ruling should be amended or withdrawn.

That means that the issue almost certainly will be back before the U.S. Supreme Court in a matter of weeks or months.

Some have speculated that the court may be delaying a final decision until it has nine justices.