For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

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

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

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

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines