Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area

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

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America

In 1993, 40 percent of Minnesota restaurateurs reported declines attributed to casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers