{"id":2414,"date":"2012-11-29T21:58:13","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2012-11-29T21:58:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T03:58:13","slug":"why-powerball-is-a-terrible-way-for-states-to-raise-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2012\/11\/29\/why-powerball-is-a-terrible-way-for-states-to-raise-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Powerball Is A Terrible Way For States To Raise Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll admit it. I bought some PowerBall tickets.<\/p>\n<p>I did not win.<\/p>\n<p>At the lunch table we were discussing whether or not the lottery was an economic stimulus of sorts. This post sheds a little light on to that topic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org.feedsportal.com\/c\/34726\/f\/638927\/s\/261ca932\/l\/0Lthinkprogress0Borg0Ceconomy0C20A120C110C290C125670A10Cwhy0Epowerball0Eis0Ea0Eterrible0Eway0Efor0Estates0Eto0Eraise0Emoney0C\/story01.htm\">Why Powerball Is A Terrible Way For States To Raise Money<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;About 35 percent of the money dedicated to lotteries eventually winds up back in state coffers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\">ThinkProgress<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll admit it. I bought some PowerBall tickets. I did not win. At the lunch table we were discussing whether or not the lottery was an economic stimulus of sorts. This post sheds a little light on to that topic&#8230; Why Powerball Is A Terrible Way For States To Raise Money &#8220;About 35 percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-CW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}