"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 ...

Seventeen states set lottery sales records in the past year. Sept. 2, 2011— -- It's one business that's thriving in this rocky economy – lottery ticket sales. Two-thirds of the 41 state lotteries ...

Everyone knows that a lottery is a tax on people who can’t do math—your odds of ever winning are laughably low. That doesn’t stop a lot of people from playing, whether it’s the occasional scratcher ...