- Tennessee Lottery
The Tennessee Lottery is run by the
Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation (TELC) which was created onJune 11 ,2003 , by theTennessee General Assembly through the Tennessee Education Lottery Implementation Law.TELC is responsible for the operation of a
lottery and is deemed to be acting in all respects for the benefit of the people of the State of Tennessee. It is a member of theMulti-State Lottery Association (MUSL); it participates in thePowerball lottery.The Tennessee Lottery sold its first tickets on
January 20 ,2004 . [ [http://www.tnlottery.com/aboutus/chronology.aspx Chronology] , Tennessee Lottery website] OnJuly 28 ,2007 , Tennessee switched from ball drawings to numbers drawn by computer. However, Powerball continues to be ball-drawn.Tennessee, on
March 9 ,2008 , introduced a "classic-style" six-number game,Tennessee Lotto Plus , with a starting jackpot of $1 million. Players choose from 44 numbers. It is drawn Tuesday and Friday nights; it also has a multiplier similar to thePowerPlay option in Powerball) Tennessee also has a third, smaller jackpot game, Cash 5.Player and beneficiary statistics
Nationwide, and presumably in Tennessee, the heaviest lottery players (top 20 percent) are nearly twice as likely to lack a
high school diploma and have a household income below $10,000 as the population as whole. [Clotfelter, Charles, et al. "State Lotteries at the Turn of the Century: Report to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission." Duke University, Sanford Institute for Public Policy, June 1, 1999: Table 12.] Recipients from families with an annual income over $72,000 make up 47% of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarships awarded. [Winchester, Katie, et al. "Tennessee Higher Education Commission: Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship Program Annual Report." January 2007: Table 7.]References
External links
* [http://www.tnlottery.com Tennessee Lottery official website]
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