State lotteries give participants the dream of winning huge jackpots while providing the state with funding for education, transportation, and other projects. State lotteries currently operate in about three-fourths of the states in the United States....

Lotteries in the United States are run by individual states. Most states have amended or re-written their constitutions to allow for a legal lottery. In the United States, the existence of lotteries is subject to the laws of each state; there is no...

State lotteries, now widely accepted, once had a seedy reputation. In the late nineteenth century, reformers successfully argued that lotteries were "morally corrupting; they were often operated dishonestly; and they created serious social problems, including economic distress and gambling addiction" (Clotfelter and Cook...

State lotteries, now widely accepted, once had a seedy reputation. In the late nineteenth century, reformers successfully argued that lotteries were "morally corrupting; they were often operated dishonestly; and they created serious social problems, including economic distress and gambling addiction" (Clotfelter and Cook 1989,...