Another big jackpot is up for grabs Saturday night for the lucky person who can match all the numbers and the Powerball.From the start of 2022 through June of this year, there have been eight jackpot drawings over $900 million dollars, according to California Lottery. In the previous two years, there was only one jackpot at that amount or more, a lottery spokesperson said.
Those big jackpots are leading to more excitement and more sales, which also means more money to California public schools, like Glendale Community College. Sign up for NBC LA newsletters. The school says it has received $4.4 million from the California Lottery this past year. lt is using the money for its football program, soccer teams, the architecture department and the welding department.
“Let's just say a lot of my students are in financial aid programs, so it's hard enough for them to even afford some of the PP and E. When I say personal protective equipment for our welders here. So having that ability to be funded to kind of cut the material fees off is fabulous and it just builds up more enrollment and success stories,” said Mark Dieny, chair of the GCC welding department.