Don Bucala likes to buy lottery tickets ; an estimated $ 10,000 in 10 years . Economics professor : Hank Hubbard , the director of Communicating Arts Credit Union in Detroit , Michigan , says when his credit union offered a 10 percent interest rate on a one-year CD , no one signed on , but with Save to Win , 14 percent of their membership signed up . Low entry fee is part of lottery 's seduction . Poor : 38 % of poor think lottery best means for them to get hundreds of thousands . Statistician : Chances of winning Powerball is 1 in 195,249,054 .
Don Bucala likes to buy lottery tickets ; an estimated $ 10,000 in 10 years . Economics professor : Low entry fee is part of lottery 's seduction . Poor : 38 % of poor think lottery best means for them to get hundreds of thousands . Statistician : Chances of winning Powerball is 1 in 195,249,054 .