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States generally have lotteries, at least this one is going to something good. As for the students in need, please note the rest of my post:
And, if you happened to read the whole thread, my previous post:
Thus, you can see my focus on the poor, while providing a merit scholarship not to any university, but to state universities. If I recall, you yourself have made posts about the plight of middle class students whose parents for one reason or another are unable to pay for college. Well, Florida’s Bright Futures Scholarship helps with that.</p>
<p>However, if you truly want to argue about the lottery, which has a negligible effect on poverty and is generally deplored by the wealthy “moralists” that are far more responsible for creating poverty, then so be it. Fund the scholarships another way. But it’s a good option, so long as we remain in a broken system.</p>
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I agree, that would be a much better system. However, I would couple it with expanding the Pell EFC range, as mandating this provision will likely lead to many places meeting the need of Pell recipients but shorting those just barely above the Pell line, since there will be less FA money for them.</p>