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Michigan editorial reveals the naked truth about casinos in Michigan

A Michigan newspaper editorial strongly urges voters not to fall for the sham argument that casinos represent “economic development” for Michigan. Here’s an excerpt: “Expect to hear a lot about economic development and tax revenue. Indeed, the one group that… Read more

NH newspaper exposes the phony narrative of the casino lobby

New Hampshire’s Seacoast Newspapers rips apart the phony messaging scheme of the predatory gambling operators lobbying for casinos in that state in an editorial published yesterday. Here it is: Of all the terrible arguments in favor of gambling, the fact… Read more

Watch Miami business leader Norman Braman effectively explain why casinos are a failed policy

Kentucky newspaper guts the false casino “jobs and revenue” narrative

Despite the billions of dollars spent by casino operators to deceive the public otherwise, the truth behind casino “economics” has remained the same since Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson wrote the following more than forty years ago: “There is a… Read more

New York Economists Agree: Casinos are a bad bet for the Empire State

Many of New York’s economists from the state’s leading colleges and universities agree that casino gambling is a bad bet for the Empire State, according to the results of an opinion survey released Tuesday. In fact, a majority of the… Read more

Government Needs to Stop Growing the Casino Economy

Yesterday’s New York Daily News featured a story about a pawn shop opening up near the Aqueduct racino, which is scheduled to open this summer. The owner hopes to make huge profits from gamblers seeking to chase their losses from… Read more

Blame it on the casinos, not the brothels

An Associated Press story on the severe economic crisis in Nevada reports there were 167,564 empty houses in the state last year, according to newly released U.S. Census data, more than double the number in 2000. The number of vacant… Read more

Pennsylvania business leaders rip the state’s casinos

Pennsylvania’s version of CSPAN, PCN-TV, aired a show about the state’s economic climate. Two guests on the program David Thornburgh, Executive Director of Fels Institute of Government at University of Pennsylvania and David Taylor, Executive Director of PA Manufacturers’ Association,… Read more

National expert on predatory gambling weighs in on the potential of Illinois becoming the number one predatory gambling state in the country

Dr. John W. Kindt, a professor of business and legal policy at Illinois, has been one of the nation’s leading experts about the predatory gambling business in America for nearly twenty years. Check out his interview about the latest predatory… Read more

More facts why casinos don’t create economic prosperity except for those who own them

Pat Loontjer, Executive Director of Nebraska’s opposition group to predatory gambling “Gambling with the Good Life”, has published a must-read opinion piece in The Omaha World Herald. Check it out below: “Casinos won’t aid economy” Repeat after me: Casinos do not… Read more

Backpedaling starts already in Ohio

Predatory gambling interests recently spent more than $60 million on an Ohio  referendum to promote a false narrative that legalizing casinos would bring back the state’s fading job base and revive some of its cities. It is a false narrative because casinos milk… Read more

Saying it loud and clear

Charlie Pierce, the talented journalist who writes for the Boston Globe Magazine, has an excellent column this week unmasking those who advocate for slot machines to save “jobs.” Pierce writes: “If slots can save the racing industry, why not all… Read more

Federal Reserve Bank study reaffims the truth

A Federal Reserve research paper just released Thursday stated that Pennsylvania casinos are not revitalizing local communities as gambling interests promised. In Philadelphia in particular, the local benefits of casinos could be outweighed by costs such as increases in pathological gambling,… Read more

Predatory gambling receives poor grade in new poll results

The Day newspaper in Connecticut reports about a national survey on predatory gambling by PublicMind, Fairleigh Dickinson University’s research center. Here are some of the findings: A majority of those with an opinion on the subject think casinos hurt local… Read more

The best house in a really bad neighborhood

There’s more evidence the era of phony prosperity is over. Forbes runs a story today about how fears that casino visitors’ spending will not bounce back for the rest of this year left shares across the entire predatory gambling sector… Read more

One of the most revealing reports about the predatory gambling trade you will ever read

Jim Rubens, leader of New Hampshire’s No Slots effort, distributed an excellent email summary of a must-read report released October 21. Here’s an excerpt from his email: Video slot machines became pervasive across almost the entire Australian nation by 1995…. Read more

Casino capitalism only benefits the casino operators

The crisis on Wall Street- AIG, Lehman Brothers, Bernie Madoff and so on – are all part of what’s been called “casino capitalism” – using predatory practices and financial gimmicks to promote an illusion of free money, all at the… Read more

Rosie the Riveter never relied on gimmicks and false hope

The Bethlehem Sands casino, built on the site of the former Bethlehem Steel which was once a symbol of America’s industrial might, asked the state of Pennsylvania for more slot machines yesterday. When the casino was proposed, the something for… Read more

New York Times spotlights state-sponsored predatory gambling

The New York Times ran a must-read story about how states are facing a drop in their revenues from predatory gambling. According to the story: “The data shows that states take a real chance in depending on gambling because this… Read more