Texas Lottery reports $3.5 billion in sales

Lottery Post — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:46:57 GMT

Popular scratch-off games and a record lottery jackpot propelled the Texas Lottery to its second-highest sales during fiscal year 2004.Unaudited sales figures of all products totaled nearly $3.5 billion in the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31. Fiscal year 1997 was the largest-ever sales year, with more than $3.7 billion worth of tickets sold. For years I've heard that the lottery's in trouble, the lottery's not delivering, said Reagan Greer, executive director of the Texas Lottery Commission. Th... [ More ]