Michigan lottery players are the big winners

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sully16 — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:50:35 GMT

thank you charmed7. just today in livonia mich 18 people lost teaching jobs. they have cut out buses for all high school students because the state cut student funding ,alot of the college students i work with have lost their u-promise money, these kids spent years working hard on keeping their meap scores high and now its all for not. theres roughly 10 million people in mich. 300 million dollars should be enough to educate all of us.

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Think — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:30:42 GMT

They can say they are paying out more but my experience has been that there have been fewer prizes. Right around 1994 is when it got harder to win on scratch offs. It is now exceedingly rare that I buy a scratcher...maybe 2 per year. As far as the raffles go, I have been in every one of them and I still have been shut out.

The only online games that have totally shut me out here so far are Zinger, Change Play, that weird online card game years ago and raffle.

As far as the Raffle goe... [ More ]

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charmed7 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:37:05 GMT

A certain percentage of the lottery proceeds, is suppose to go to EDUCATION? So what happen MI?

that so unfair for the CHILDREN. We should all want our BABIES to have quality education

I am truly praying for MI

Michigan lottery players are the big winners

Lottery Post — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:37:39 GMT

Where did the all the Michigan lottery money go?

That age-old question is being asked with a little greater frequency these days as local school districts grapple with mid-year state aid cuts of a minimum of $292 per student.

Conspiracy theory has long held that lottery proceeds intended to solve all of Michigan's school funding problems have been for decades fiscally diverted by crafty lawmakers in other, non-school programs.

Those suspicions might have had more of a basis of support b... [ More ]