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Americans have a fixation with winning lotteries. The one 99.99 percent sure thing with a lottery is that you will be poorer for playing. In a recent record setting Powerball lottery the odds of winning were 1 in 292 million. That is about the same as flipping a coin and getting the same result, (heads…

Manuel Reija is a convenience store clerk in La Coruna, Spain. He found a lottery ticket on his counter and before throwing it away he checked the numbers. He discovered it was a $6.3 million winner. “I was standing up, but I had to sit down. I almost broke the chair, I was so flustered,” Reija told…

“In July, Violet and Allen Large of Lower Truro, Nova Scotia, won more than $11 million in a lottery.” They know that money cannot buy happiness. “Violet is undergoing cancer treatments which has underscored for the couple the limits of wealth.” Beyond just the words, the Larges live contentedly. They…

GAMBLING/LOTTERY Lotteries offer big jackpots and instant riches, but these promises often mask the true economic nature of gambling. The National Center for Policy Analysis notes show that states usually keep only about a third of the money collected through ticket sales. The remainder is paid out in…

Sin, as defined by a new Ellison Research study, is something almost always considered wrong, particularly from a religious or moral perspective. Out of the 30 behaviors studied, adultery was most often described as a sinful behavior by American respondents (81%). Next was racism (74%); using “hard”…