Will North Carolina Get a $268 Million Powerball Winner Saturday?
Could there be a lucky North Carolina resident out there about to see life-changing money – like quarter of a BILLION dollars in Powerball winnings life changing?
Let’s keep our fingers crossed, as the Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s drawing is an estimated $268 million. That’s a lot of cash.
And even if you didn’t want to take the Powerball winnings as the annuity for all $268 million, you could choose the cash option and get a measly $171.1 million… before taxes of course.
“While anyone would like to win the jackpot, you can win other big prizes playing Powerball as well,” said Mark Michalko, executive director of the North Carolina Education Lottery. “We’re waiting on Saturday night to see if someone can bring this jackpot home to North Carolina.”
In last Saturday’s drawing, someone in Harnett County won $100,000, and someone in Greene County won $50,000. A ticket sold in Monday’s drawing landed someone $50,000.
The last Powerball jackpot winner came on Valentine’s Day, when a Connecticut winner got $185.3 million. It’s been rolling up ever since, with three drawings every week.
Tickets are $2, but remember, your odds of winning are 1 in 292 million.
North Carolinians can buy Powerball tickets at any lottery retail location in the state. Tickets can also be purchased through Online Play on the lottery’s website, www.nclottery.com, and with the NC Lottery Official Mobile App.
Ticket sales from draw games such as Powerball help make it possible for the lottery to raise more than $900 million a year for education. For details on how lottery funds have made a difference in all of North Carolina’s 100 counties, click on the “Impact” section of the lottery’s website.
Several North Carolina Cities Among Worst in Country For Money Management
No. 329 - Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
87th percentile, median credit score of 758
No. 931 - Fuquay-Varina
Fuquay-Varina
64th percentile, median credit score of 736
No. 1208 - Hickory
Hickory, NC
53rd percentile, median credit score of 695
No. 1506 - Wilmington
Wilmington, NC
41st percentile, median credit score of 705
No. 1765 - Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
31st percentile, median credit score of 675
No. 2096 - Monroe
Monroe, NC
19th percentile, median credit score of 677
National No. 1 - Scarsdale, NY
Scarsdale, New York
99th percentile, median credit score of 768
National No. 6 - Princeton, NJ
Princeton, New Jersey
99th percentile, median credit score of 765
It's Not All Bad News...Here's Some "Happy" News
Cheer Up: What's the Happiest City in North Carolina?
No. 27 - Raleigh
Raleigh comes out as the happiest city in North Carolina, largely thanks to a rank of No. 23 in Emotional & Physical Well Being.
- Emotional & Physical Well Being: 23
- Income & Employment: 71
- Community & Environment: 63
- Total Score: 62.35
No. 168 - Fayetteville
It’s not that things are all unhappy around Fayetteville, it’s just that we didn’t exactly score well in a lot of the key factors for this study. Fayetteville does rank as the least happy of the major North Carolina cities in the study. Just behind Fayetteville overall is Jackson, Mississippi and Birmingham, Alabama.
Fayetteville also took a hit, coming in at No. 181 on Lowest Income Growth and No. 180 on Most Work Hours.
- Emotional & Physical Well Being: 161
- Income & Employment: 155
- Community & Environment: 171
- Total Score: 40.83
No. 3 - San Francisco, California
- Emotional & Physical Well Being: 4
- Income & Employment: 1
- Community & Environment: 44
- Total Score: 71.15
No. 7 - Seattle, Washington
- Emotional & Physical Well Being: 6
- Income & Employment: 2
- Community & Environment: 99
- Total Score: 67.67
No. 180 - Memphis, Tennessee
- Emotional & Physical Well Being: 176
- Income & Employment: 181
- Community & Environment: 172
- Total Score: 34.86
No. 182 - Detroit, Michigan
- Emotional & Physical Well Being: 179
- Income & Employment: 179
- Community & Environment: 177
- Total Score: 32.31
