What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

$60,000 spent in a consumer economy multiplies by respending into $180,000

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework