Record sales and profits for Virginia Lottery despite pandemic

Despite a pandemic, the Virginia Lottery announces Thursday record sales and profits for the state budget year ending on June 30th.

New online games and the continued strength of traditional lottery products sold at retail pushed the annual sales to nearly three point three billion dollars. That’s more than a 50 percent sales increase over the prior year. Lottery profits, which are required by law to be spent On Virginia K-12 public school programs, surged nearly 30 percent, topping 765 million dollars. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam accepted a ceremonial check totaling 765 million dollars in lottery profits for k-12 school programs