For a dollar and a dream : state lotteries in modern America /
Every week, one in eight Americans places a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined. The typical story is that lotteries are a tax on poor people who do...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- An astronomical source of income : the return of state lotteries
- Not luck, but the work of God: merit and miracles in the 1970s
- Rivers of gold: the lottery industry and the tax revolt
- Somebody's gotta win, might as well be me: lottomania in the 1980s
- This could be your ticket out: the paradox of lottery advertising
- Selling hope: lottery politics in the South
- Conclusion: jackpot.