The Arkansas Lottery: One Year Later
Today is the one-year anniversary of the Arkansas Lottery—and the real story is not about any “success” it’s had, but about how the lottery is failing students and preying upon the poorest in our state.
How to Abolish the Lottery
Last week, we built the case—in a series of four posts—why the Arkansas Lottery should be abolished. Now let’s briefly talk about how to amend the Arkansas Constitution to abolish the lottery.
There are two primary ways:
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Abolishing the Arkansas Lottery: Part 4
In Parts 1, 2, and 3 of our series on repealing the Arkansas Lottery, we looked at how little lottery revenue is really going to scholarships; how much economic damage the lottery is causing; and how much social dysfunction the lottery is contributing to. Today, we’re going to end our series by looking at one of the most compelling reasons of all: The fact that it puts the State in the gambling business.