{"id":1735128,"date":"2022-11-11T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735128"},"modified":"2022-11-11T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:02:50","slug":"cnn-report-on-lottery-critics-includes-one-who-calls-it-a-form-of-systemic-racism-following-record-high-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-report-on-lottery-critics-includes-one-who-calls-it-a-form-of-systemic-racism-following-record-high-payout\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Report On Lottery Critics Includes One Who Calls It A Form Of \u2018Systemic Racism\u2019 Following Record High Payout"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-report-on-lottery-critics-includes-one-who-calls-it-a-form-of-systemic-racism-following-record-high-payout%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1735128&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/lottery\">lottery<\/a> ticket for the biggest Powerball jackpot ever was recently sold in California, and in response <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cnn\">CNN<\/a> published a report on the lottery\u2019s critics, one of which argued that\u00a0the lottery system in general is an example of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/racism\">systemic racism<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The winner, whose race is currently unknown, had a one in 292.2 million chance of matching all six numbers. That person\u2019s luck led them to winning an unprecedented $2.04 billion prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the jackpot finally won, lottery experts are reflecting on how they believe the game is unfair for certain people. CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/09\/us\/lottery-jackpot-systemic-racism-reaj\/index.html\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that, according to researchers, lotteries typically target low-income communities, especially those populated by \u201cblack and brown people,\u201d dangling the promise of instant wealth from a game that residents are statistically unlikely to win.<\/p>\n<p>The lottery\u2019s critics argued that lower-income minorities who play the lottery are more likely to be driven into debt, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Les Bernal, national director of Stop Predatory Gambling, accused the lottery of being a form of \u201cconsumer financial fraud\u201d and evidence of \u201csystemic racism,\u201d according to CNN.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re hoping to pay their rent at the end of the month or pay an outstanding medical bill or put their kids through college or they just lost their job and they\u2019re just trying to find a way to make ends meet,\u201d Bernal said.\u00a0\u201cAnd here you have what is a government program encouraging citizens to lose their money on rigged games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stores that sell lottery tickets are more likely to be located in poorer areas, and the profits gained by the states from the lottery are rarely used to benefit those poorer areas, according to a study from the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism cited by CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommercialized gambling like state lotteries, like the Powerball drawing, they represent a financial exchange that is mathematically stacked against you,\u201d Bernal continued.<\/p>\n<p>The report also cited a 1999 report by The Howard Center to the National Gambling Impact Study Commission that found that black and low-income people are more likely to play the lottery. Players are also more likely to be high school dropouts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoor people are collateral damage to a cause of raising money for what the legislators feel is good purposes \u2026 public safety, local schools,\u201d former Massachusetts inspector general Gregory W. Sullivan said in the article. \u201cState governments become dependent on the revenue and any moral considerations get pushed out of view and out of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other sources interviewed in the article said people are more likely to play the lottery during difficult financial times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cornell economics professor David Just summed it up, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s an investment. It may not be a good investment but\u2026 to people with limited resources, this may be the only way they have to sort of dream big and think that something, something great is gonna happen, that\u2019s just gonna change everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lottery ticket for the biggest Powerball jackpot ever was recently sold in California, and in response CNN published a report on the lottery\u2019s critics, one of which argued that\u00a0the lottery system in general is an example of \u201csystemic racism.\u201d\u00a0 The winner, whose race is currently unknown, had a one in 292.2 million chance of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1735134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1735128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1735128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1735128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1735128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1735128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1735128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}