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$1 Billion in Profit from Lottery Sales Last Year
Players in PA bought $2.3 billion in lottery tickets in 2012.
By Tom Coombe
Did you buy a PA Lottery ticket last year? If so, you helped to generate $2.3 billion in sales for the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission.
That's according to the Harrisburg Patriot-News, which published a detailed look inside the lottery commission on Monday.
The story says that the commission made $1 billion in profit from the sales. That profit then went to help senior citizens.
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