Arkansas Lottery Rolls Out More Scratch-Off Tickets

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Earlier this month the Arkansas Lottery rolled out five new scratch-off tickets that sell for anywhere from $1 to $10 each.

They are:

  • Lucky 7 ($1)
  • Jumbo Bucks Maximum ($2)
  • Scrabble Crossword ($3)
  • Power 5 ($5)
  • $200,000 Jackpot ($10)

Scratch-off tickets are controversial, because they are tied to problem gambling and gambling addiction.

For example, a 2015 study in Canada described them as “paper slot machines.” 

A 2018 study published in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions also found a link between how often a person played scratch-off tickets and the severity of a person’s gambling problem.

Besides being addictive, scratch-off tickets are not as profitable for the Arkansas Lottery as draw games like Powerball and MegaMillions.

In spite of all of this, the Arkansas Lottery still relies very heavily on scratch-off tickets.

Most of the revenue from the Arkansas Lottery’s scratch-off tickets is spent on prizes for lottery players.

With the Arkansas Lottery’s five newest scratch-off tickets, anywhere from 61% – 76% of the money from ticket sales goes straight to prizes. Very little goes to college scholarships.

As long as the state-run lottery depends on scratch-off tickets and spends most of its money on prizes, it will never provide as much funding as possible for Arkansas’ college scholarships.

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Student Organization to Host Planned Parenthood at UCA

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The Feminist Union at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway announced today that an organizer for Planned Parenthood Great Plains will speak at the group’s general meeting this week.

Planned Parenthood Great Plains is Planned Parenthood’s affiliate for Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas.

As we reported in January, the UCA Feminist Union was among the student groups that supported a recent pro-abortion rally in Little Rock.

Planned Parenthood is actively promoting its agenda in Arkansas.

Last fall the organization posted a job opening for a Sexual Health Education intern to assist “with the development and implementation of sexual health education programs for students” in Little Rock and the surrounding area.

Planned Parenthood’s political action committee in Arkansas also has endorsed candidates in the March 3 primaries and appears to be actively fundraising ahead of the November elections.

Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading abortionist. An estimated one in three abortions occurs in a Planned Parenthood facility. There’s simply no reason to let abortion groups promote their work on college campuses.

Photo Credit: New Logo Reveal by University of Central Arkansas, on Flickr.

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