January 2008
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Texas Lottery: Voluntary Scourge of the Super-Rich
Texas, our Texas introduced a $50 lottery ticket in hopes of attracting affluent players…how’d that work out? Not so much: Laura Estrada, 33, can’t seem to get enough of the high-dollar tickets. She earns just more than $22,000 a year as a customer sales representative for a party store in north Austin but spends anywhere between $100 and $200 a week on scratch-off tickets,...