boxed verbatim environment disappears

I want to center a box containing a verbatim environment. The (almost)MWE below is my attempt to use the answer at Center-align the verbatim environment .

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{verbatimbox}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}
The table at \verb!http://www.census.gov/govs/state/10lottery.html!
lists the following data for the 2010 Texas lotteries:

\begin{center}
\begin{verbbox}
Income               Apportionment of funds
(ticket sales      Prizes  Administration  Proceeds
excluding                               available
commissions)
3,542,210       2,300,182   184,980     1,057,048
\end{verbbox}
\end{center}

Since
%
\begin{equation*}
\frac{2,300,182}{3,542,210} = 0.649363533 \approx 65\%
\end{equation*}
%
Texas returned 65 cents on the dollar in lottery payouts in 2010 --
three cents more than the national average.

\end{document}


In the output, the boxed text has disappeared:

You have to issue \theverbbox in order to print the verbatim text. However, the verbbox environment shouldn't be inside center.

I also add how to do it with fancyvrb and its BVerbatim environment. I also use \url for the URL.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{verbatimbox,fancyvrb,url}
\usepackage{amsmath}

\begin{document}

The table at \url{http://www.census.gov/govs/state/10lottery.html}
lists the following data for the 2010 Texas lotteries:
\begin{verbbox}
Income               Apportionment of funds
(ticket sales      Prizes  Administration  Proceeds
excluding                               available
commissions)
3,542,210       2,300,182   184,980     1,057,048
\end{verbbox}
\begin{center}
\theverbbox
\end{center}

Since
\begin{equation*}
\frac{2,300,182}{3,542,210} = 0.649363533 \approx 65\%
\end{equation*}
Texas returned 65 cents on the dollar in lottery payouts in 2010 --
three cents more than the national average.

\begin{center}
\begin{BVerbatim}
Income               Apportionment of funds
(ticket sales      Prizes  Administration  Proceeds
excluding                               available
commissions)
3,542,210       2,300,182   184,980     1,057,048
\end{BVerbatim}
\end{center}

\end{document}


• I knew about \url but omitted to minimize my example. I know about using \centering instead of a center environment for figures. Why not use it here? – Ethan Bolker Dec 2 '13 at 21:23
• @EthanBolker With center you leave some vertical space fore and aft the verbatim part. This is the reason why \centering should be preferred in a figure or table environment, but not here. – egreg Dec 2 '13 at 21:24
• I see. The \verbbox is defined outside the center environment but the \theverbox is inside. – Ethan Bolker Dec 2 '13 at 21:28
• @EthanBolker If it's inside, the last line disappears. – egreg Dec 2 '13 at 21:30
• I noticed! I find that weird. I'm sure digging into source would explain why, but that's more than I need to know. – Ethan Bolker Dec 2 '13 at 21:45