Florida
'($3.9,000,000,000), 'Teachers'($0),!
Florida
'($100,000,000), 'Teachers'($0),!
How much money does
Florida make with the Lotteries?
Tuesday May 5th 2018
Where does Florida
Lottery money go?
A breakdown
Michael Mayo
Last fiscal year,
the Florida Lottery rung up $3.9 billion in sales.
Florida drivers who
were caught by red-light cameras paid more than $100 million in traffic fines
in 2013.
Florida Is Cashing
in on Red-Light Cameras
($100,000,000)
How much goes to
teachers pocket (0)!
How much goes into
our politicians pockets?
Great question!
how did the combined
$1.41 billion from the lottery and slots get distributed last year?
The biggest chunk,
$426 million (30 percent), went to Bright Futures Scholarships, a merit-based
program that benefits college students who stay in Florida.
Just over $316
million (22.4 percent) went to state universities and community colleges.
Just over $311
million (21.9 percent) went to school construction bonds.
Just over $35
million (2.5 percent) went to other college financial aid programs.
The amount of
gambling money that went to K-12 classrooms? Around $325 million, or only 23
percent.
And the Legislature
keeps putting more restrictions on the money, and cutting the share that goes
to schools in Broward and Palm Beach counties.