"Scratch and Win" is a new WGBH News podcast about how a bunch of Massachusetts state bureaucrats set out to beat the mob at its own game — and ended up creating a $100 billion dollar obsession. Never ...

A lucky person in California won a $2 billion lottery prize in November. The Powerball jackpot was the largest in history. Maybe you waited in line and tested your luck and dreamt of what you would do ...

The companies that run state-backed lotteries already have a heavy hand in how the games are operated. But in the years ahead, their control over lotteries is expected to expand significantly while ...

• Academic studies of early vaccine lotteries do provide reason for skepticism about how successful such programs have been. • However, the studies so far have produced mixed findings, rather than ...

People across Northern Ireland (NI) overwhelmingly support charity lotteries as a trusted and effective way to fund good ...

While many of the nation’s public schools remain stubbornly segregated by race and income, charter schools are well-positioned to buck that trend: Untethered from neighborhood boundaries, they can ...

If revenues are any barometer, state-run lotteries are among the most popular forms of entertainment in the United States. Such lotteries brought in more than $83 billion in the US in fiscal 2019, ...

For years, lotteries have been a lucrative enterprise for states, reliably bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars to fund everything from education to environmental preservation to homeless ...