Your North Carolina Education Lottery questions answered
Van Denton, Communications Director, joined 2 Wants to Know to discuss how the money is beneficial and what some of the biggest prizes are players can win. Author: WFMY News 2 Staff Published: 8:58 PM EDT July 2, 2021 Updated: 9:05 PM EDT July 2, 2021
GREENSBORO, N.C. For the last 15 years, the North Carolina Education Lottery has raised $8 billion for education programs. The NC Education Lottery started on March 30, 2006.
The lottery raises $2 million each day on average for education.
Since the lottery began:
About 95 cents of every dollar spent on a lottery ticket cycles back into the state’s economy as either a prize, earnings for education, or a sales commission to a retailer.
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RALEIGH – If Thursday had been a typical morning for Charles Browne of Hendersonville, he would not have ended up on a 500-mile round trip to Raleigh to collect a $1 million lottery prize.
Browne typically begins his day with a stop at Norm’s Minit Mart on Kanuga Road in Hendersonville where he gets a Red Bull and his favorite lottery ticket.
“I will usually play Extreme Cash,” Browne said. “They were out of it so I said let’s go with my second favorite game and that’s how I ended up with the $1 million ticket.”