The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

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

Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

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

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

The real loss by gambling is $180,000 to the consumer economy for each slot machine

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market