Besides creating more compulsive gamblers, money spent on lotteries isn't spent on other goods such as clothing or computers, which would trickle through to retailers, manufacturers and other parts of the economy

Another threat to stability is the rise of Internet gambling

Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

The casinos are walking out of states with at least $1 billion in their pockets to Las Vegas

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year