Stop Predatory Gambling

First-rate reporting on the Lottery as a predatory institution

by spgadmin

Pam Zubeck of the Colorado Spring Independent writes a terrific story this week on the Colorado Lottery.

Zubeck writes: “In 2008, Carnegie Mellon University looked into why the jackpot dream seems particularly attractive to people with low incomes. Researchers found low-income people see the lottery as their best opportunity to enrich themselves, or at least crawl out of poverty — although, ironically, spending on the lottery can worsen the economic situation they’re trying to escape.”

The government program of predatory gambling has turned the American Dream upside down. It’s up to us to change it back.