Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml The chances of winning the lottery are one in 175 million. So how does the lottery work and what should you do if you win? Learn More: Lottery Funds...
========== In February 2015 in North Carolina, a 26-year-old
mother of four children was one of three winners of a huge Powerball jackpot - totaling $564
million dollars. The chances of that happening were one in 175 Million. So how does the lottery
work? And what should you do if you win? Well, in America, only 44 states have lotteries,
plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The other US
states exclude themselves for various reasons, like religious objections or, in Nevada’s
case, the fact that they already have other gambling agencies. Lotteries are mostly government-run,
and state officials use part of the proceeds towards funding things like education. Across
the country, lottery sales totalled 70 billion dollars for the year 2014. So ...