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NY Mega Millions |
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NY Mega Millions |
Jackpot may be the largest in game historical past
SCHENECTADY, NY: (03/29/2012)(readMedia)-- The jackpot for any Friday, March 30 Mega Hundreds of thousands drawing has increased with $500 million to $540 million influenced by strong sales across just about all participating Lottery jurisdictions. The bump makes Friday's jackpot the largest single jackpot in Lottery history. The largest Mega Millions jackpot prior to the current record setting jackpot had been $390 million; won by players in Nj and Georgia in 2007. The main Mega Millions jackpot paid for a New Yorker to date is $319 million. The jackpot was claimed by a grouping of state workers from the capital Region.
About the Nyc Lottery
The New York Lottery may be North America's largest and a lot of profitable Lottery, contributing over $3 billion in fiscal year 2010-2011 to aid support education in The big apple State. The Lottery's aid represents over 15 percentage of total state education funding to local the school districts.
Lottery revenue is sent out to local Mega Millions school districts by way of the same statutory formula useful to distribute other state aid to education. It takes into account both a school district's size and it is income level; larger, lower-income higher education districts receive proportionately large shares of Lottery higher education funding.