Alabama State Lottery
Jeffrey Kidd
Final Copy
12 April 2013
Alabama State Lottery Many states have a state lottery. These lotteries can help out a state in many different ways. Lotteries can help provide many different ways of funding money to the state. They can help provide money for local groups and organizations such as schools, hospitals, and animal shelters. Alabama needs a state lottery because it does not have the proper funding to provide for those in need, provide help for the school systems, and it can boost the states overall profit. Some people have different views on gambling. They believe that it is wrong and should not be done. Others have the total opposite view. Many people think the state lottery is the same as gambling, but others argue that its not. People in Alabama travel to other states to be part of their state lottery such as Georgia and Florida; in this way the state is loosing money by the people going and spending their money in other states, where as if there was a lottery here in Alabama it would receive all the money. The state loses valuable money that could help fund to people who are in need of it. With that money we could help give the less fortunate food, shelter, and clothes to wear. If the state of Alabama could get a lottery, the money from it could help so many people, and the people from other states would join our lottery as the residents from Alabama use theirs. There have been many recent cuts involving our state’s school system. The state could provide better pay for teachers, new books, and could provide better space for higher education for students. The lottery money could go towards making new school systems, and to buying the proper technology needed for today’s everyday learning. Kevin P. Brady from North Carolina State University states, “State governments face escalating pressure to adequately fund public education” (1). Money from the lottery could help with this problem. The lottery could make Alabama a better,
Final Copy
12 April 2013
Alabama State Lottery Many states have a state lottery. These lotteries can help out a state in many different ways. Lotteries can help provide many different ways of funding money to the state. They can help provide money for local groups and organizations such as schools, hospitals, and animal shelters. Alabama needs a state lottery because it does not have the proper funding to provide for those in need, provide help for the school systems, and it can boost the states overall profit. Some people have different views on gambling. They believe that it is wrong and should not be done. Others have the total opposite view. Many people think the state lottery is the same as gambling, but others argue that its not. People in Alabama travel to other states to be part of their state lottery such as Georgia and Florida; in this way the state is loosing money by the people going and spending their money in other states, where as if there was a lottery here in Alabama it would receive all the money. The state loses valuable money that could help fund to people who are in need of it. With that money we could help give the less fortunate food, shelter, and clothes to wear. If the state of Alabama could get a lottery, the money from it could help so many people, and the people from other states would join our lottery as the residents from Alabama use theirs. There have been many recent cuts involving our state’s school system. The state could provide better pay for teachers, new books, and could provide better space for higher education for students. The lottery money could go towards making new school systems, and to buying the proper technology needed for today’s everyday learning. Kevin P. Brady from North Carolina State University states, “State governments face escalating pressure to adequately fund public education” (1). Money from the lottery could help with this problem. The lottery could make Alabama a better,