If you want to support public education and have a little flutter at the same time, should you buy a lottery ticket or do some state-sponsored betting on sports?
Buy the lottery ticket, by a long shot. But you’re less likely to lose money from the betting – although you shouldn’t do either of them unless you can afford to lose.
That’s the conclusion from fiscal year 2023 figures released by New Hampshire Lottery, which also oversees the state’s gambling…
For sports wagering, a whopping $884 million was bet during that fiscal year, most of it online, and $35 million went toward state education.
