Promoting Lotteries: Is It Right To Encourage Gambling?

In the article, “Promoting Lotteries”: Is it right to encourage gambling? by William Pride Lotteries became legal in the United States after 1964. Lotteries are a way of hope for low income families. Gambling lotteries are one of the common advertisements in the low- income community. Why do the states have gambling advertising around the low income communities? As you walk in the neighborhood you could see the advertising in the bodega windows and you also see posters of winners. Those posters are attracting people to play since they don’t need to have any skills or any education. The main idea is how the low income community are the ones spending more money thinking they will win the big prize. The author believes that low income family is spending too much money on lotteries and not winning. Unfortunately, it is their choice to continue playing or losing their money for a dream that may never come true. …show more content…
I have a personal story of my daughter’s grandmother; she is 69 years old and every month she will wait for the beginning of the month for her check to buy tickets in the machine or to purchase the scratch tickets. Unfortunately her addiction will result in her not being able to provide food for her family. Low income communities suffer from a dream that they can make money quick and become wealthy. One of the first solutions in helping a person who has this problem is to make them acknowledge they have a problem and to realize how it is affecting them. Counseling or therapy will be a great solution to dig deep into discovering how they got to this dark