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Betting on the Lottery

Lottery fever is spreading. Twenty-nine states now raise $20 billion a year in revenues. Frontline correspondent James Reston, Jr., goes behind the scenes of state lotteries to look at the promoters selling them, the people buying the tickets, and to ask the question, 'Who really wins and who loses?'

English
  • Originally Aired November 6, 1990
  • Runtime 60 minutes
  • Production Code 904
  • Network PBS
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