According to the press release, the Florida Lottery is responsible for contributing more than $47 billion to improving education and sending more than 983,000 students to college through the Bright Futures Scholarship Program. The lottery reinvests 99 percent of its revenue into Florida’s economy through prize payouts, commissions to more than 13,600 lottery retailers and transfers to education.

Since 1988, Florida Lottery games have generated more than $95.7 billion in prizes and made more than 4,000 people millionaires, the release found.