NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Tvonia Thomas said that scratch-off lotto games were consuming every aspect of her life in Virginia.
Even though she rarely won big jackpots, Thomas told ABC News Live that the rush of going out to the convenience store for those tickets was stronger than the urge to eat a meal.
A 2022 nationwide investigation of state lotteries by the Howard Center For Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland found stores that sell tickets are disproportionately clustered in lower-income communities in nearly every state where the game is played. "This is definitely a form of systemic racism that has occurred," he said."They have shifted the tax burden away from middle-class taxpayers [and] from property."
Lottery critics have called out states for failing to distribute revenue to necessary public services and programs to fight gambling addiction.
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