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

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.