{"id":2145,"date":"2016-06-21T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/?p=2145"},"modified":"2016-06-21T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:31:58","slug":"state-lottery-system-revenue-and-expenditures-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2016\/06\/21\/state-lottery-system-revenue-and-expenditures-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"State lottery system revenue and expenditures, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This dashboard highlights another table available through the U.S. Census Bureau&#8217;s <strong>American FactFinder <\/strong>data portal:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/factfinder.census.gov\/bkmk\/table\/1.0\/en\/SGF\/2014\/00A2\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Income and Apportionment of State-Administered Lottery Funds: 2014<\/span><\/a> from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/govs\/state\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014 State Government Finances<\/a><\/strong> data program.<\/p>\n<p>The data &#8211; which includes total revenues of lottery systems, expenditures in lottery system administration and prizes, and total lottery revenue made available to fund state government &#8211; show a wide range of both public participation and approaches to state lottery administration among the 43 state lottery systems.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with figures from the 2014 American Community Survey, Massachusetts had the highest lottery revenues from its adult population on a per-capita basis &#8211; about $900 of revenue for each adult 18 and over. Massachusetts also had the highest rate of payout to winners &#8211; returning\u00a0 72% of gross lottery revenues in the form of prizes.\u00a0 25.6% of Massachusetts state lottery revenues were made available to the state, compared with the national average of 34.6% &#8211; yet the state still ranked 4th in total lottery proceeds made available to finance other state functions &#8211; yielding more than $1.2 billion to the state in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Arkansas had the lowest percentage of lottery revenues returned to state government &#8211; 20.4% &#8211; and was the 12th most costly state system to run in terms of lottery administrative costs as a percentage of gross lottery revenue. West Virginia lottery system allocated the smallest percentage of gross lottery revenue on prizes &#8211; 17.1% &#8211; and returned the highest percentage of lottery\u00a0 revenue back to the state &#8211; 77.8% &#8211;\u00a0 to be made available for other government functions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[xyz-ihs snippet=&#8221;State-lottery-funds-2014&#8243;]<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This dashboard highlights another table available through the U.S. Census Bureau&#8217;s American FactFinder data portal:\u00a0 Income and Apportionment of State-Administered Lottery Funds: 2014 from the 2014 State Government Finances data program. The data &#8211; which includes total revenues of lottery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2016\/06\/21\/state-lottery-system-revenue-and-expenditures-2014\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}