The benefits and cost associated with the economic factors are often reported in terms of community impacts. This means that all the money that is spent on the lottery affects the community. “The news reports say that people in receipt of benefits are more likely to play scratch cards and draw based games than those not on benefits. People who earn less than $20,000 a year spend an average of $55.39 a year on scratch cards, compared with the national average of $44.18” (okklesla.co.uk). This quote means that the lottery attracts the poor. The people that make a little amount of money a year are more likely to gamble. The lottery encourages people to gamble money that would otherwise be spent at pre-existing businesses. “In California, one entire chain of grocery stores were losing one dollar in food sales for every one dollar in lottery tickets sold.” (saneok.org) This quote means that customers stopped coming to the store to buy groceries but instead buy lottery tickets. Stores then realized that they were decreasing in money.