Try determining how much money a lottery would plunk into the North Carolina treasury. Even those doing the math admit every figure is an educated guess. He wants the money spent on preschool and smaller primary-grade classes.
States typically keep about a third of a lottery's gross sales.
I won't say the yields won't be higher. But this is a bare-bones minimum. Georgia and North Carolina each have about 8 million residents, making it logical to compare the two, Hirsch said. Easley, in an interview, said those states are alike in other ways. The states also boast booming cities that could drive up lottery sales further.