{"id":43937,"date":"2025-11-18T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43937\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:54:09","slug":"new-york-schools-gain-46-5m-from-mega-millions-sales-focus-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/43937\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Schools Gain $46.5M from Mega Millions Sales | Focus Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"New York Lottery\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1662\" height=\"1247\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6703f411ccd42.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; The recent Mega Millions jackpot run has brought over $54 million to New York, benefiting public schools and lottery retailers.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Gaming Commission reported that from July 1 to Nov. 14, Mega Millions ticket sales in New York reached $132.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in $46.5 million for K-12 public schools and $8 million in retailer commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the jackpot being won in Georgia, New Yorkers claimed prizes totaling $8.8 million, with several winning $20,000 or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; The recent Mega Millions jackpot run has brought over $54 million to New York,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5348,617,840,9,11,839,10,49,1467,51,25254,50,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-43937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-georgia","9":"tag-lottery","10":"tag-mega-millions","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-lottery","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-new-york-state","16":"tag-new-york-state-gaming-commission","17":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-state-lottery","19":"tag-new-york-state-news","20":"tag-public-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}