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The end of the golden age of gambling?

Tuesday, 6th January 2009

And it's not just the effect of the recession, apparently. The Wall Street Journal discovers that American public opinion has shifted too:

For the first time in the 45 years since the creation of the New Hampshire state lottery kicked off a new era of gambling acceptability in this country, there is formidable resistance to the industry's future growth.
It seems all that optimistic talk about casinos regenerating neighbourhoods hasn't matched the reality:
In locale after locale, citizens are realizing that they were snookered by politicians' promises that casinos would provide a problem-free explosion in jobs and income from tourism...The reality is that gambling is a net economic and social minus...

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