According to the National Endowment for Financial Education, about 70 percent of people who have won large lottery jackpots or fall into the possession of large sums of money all at once, wind up going broke and as much as one-third of them file for bankruptcy.
The jackpot for Powerball has risen to $750 Million dollars and the next drawing takes place this evening. Celebrities work years to make the bread you could own
Sure, the three winners splitting the record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot are getting a lot of attention. But more than 26 million tickets won prizes, many of them not too shabby. Some in each of these categories even doubled their winnings by paying an extra dollar for a "Power Play."
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Three tickets will share in Wednesday night's record $1.6 billion Powerball game, lottery officials say.
Florida officials say the winning ticket in the record Powerball jackpot for that state was sold at a grocery store in Melbourne Beach...
Powerball fever is about to strike for the second time in less than a week as Wednesday night's jackpot is already estimated to be at least $1.5 BILLION! That amount of money might be hard to wrap your brain around, but I'm sure that we could all figure out a way to spend it!
There is always a lottery going on and as of January 9th the Power-ball jackpot has soared to the record high for any lottery. 1.3 Billion dollars. I don't think I have ever even thought that high as far as that kind of money is concerned. I have a list of things that I would do before and after the lottery numbers our announced.
No ticket matched all six Powerball numbers following Saturday night's drawing for a record jackpot of nearly $950 million, lottery officials said, boosting the expected payout for the next drawing to a whopping $1.3 billion.
The winning numbers — disclosed live on television and online — were 16-19-32-34-57 and the Powerball number 13...
(AP) — It's easy to sum up your chances of winning tomorrow's huge Powerball jackpot -- slim to none. The math whizzes put the odds of winning at more than one in 292 million. One statistical expert at the University at Buffalo (Jeffrey Miecznikowski) says that's like flipping a quarter and getting heads 28 times in a row. In ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A lottery official says the estimated prize for this weekend's Powerball drawing is the largest jackpot of any lottery game in U.S. history.
Texas Lottery spokeswoman Kelly Cripe says Saturday's drawing will be worth about $675 million. Tha...