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	<title>Stop Predatory Gambling</title>
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	<description>Our mission is to stop predatory gambling – the government program of casinos and lotteries that uses gambling to prey on human weakness for profit.</description>
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		<title>Philadelphia Inquirer reporter exposes the state&#8217;s failed predatory gambling policy</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/philadelphia-inquirer-reporter-exposes-the-states-failed-predatory-gambling-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 04:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Excellent media reporting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation By Exploitation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia Inquirer&#8217;s Monica Yant Kinney has consistently been a member of the small company of American journalists who have aggressively examined government&#8217;s policy of predatory gambling.  Below is another must-read Inquirer column she published recently: The Valley Forge Casino... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/philadelphia-inquirer-reporter-exposes-the-states-failed-predatory-gambling-policy/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Schools&#8217; slices of lottery pie small, getting smaller in Oklahoma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 21:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taxation By Exploitation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With more than 500 Oklahoma school districts vying for their cut of the funds and only 35 percent of gross proceeds going to education, the lottery pie gets sliced hundreds of different times before an individual school district sees its... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/research-center/research-center/schools-slices-of-lottery-pie-small-getting-smaller/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time states stopped the use of &#8220;free play&#8221; to entice citizens to gamble and allowing casinos to escape paying taxes</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/its-time-states-stopped-the-use-of-free-play-to-entice-citizens-to-gamble-and-allowing-casinos-to-escape-paying-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 04:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predatory Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[State governments continue to allow casino operators to offer free play to lure citizens into gambling. Today’s casinos use mail, phone and email solicitations to offer free slot machine play to citizens who have rarely been to a casino before,... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/its-time-states-stopped-the-use-of-free-play-to-entice-citizens-to-gamble-and-allowing-casinos-to-escape-paying-taxes/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Newspaper blisters the sham of casino &#8220;responsible gambling&#8221; programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 13:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Broken Promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Predatory Practices]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After many years of watching government&#8217;s failed predatory gambling policy unfold in their state, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial unloads on the recent efforts by casinos to eliminate the last of Missouri&#8217;s precautionary operating restrictions: offering loans to gamblers. Here... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/newspaper-blisters-the-sham-of-casino-responsible-gambling-programs/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Near Misses Are Like Winning to Problem Gamblers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Research Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slot Machines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The brains of problem gamblers react more intensely to near misses than casual gamblers, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. The results help explain what keeps problem gamblers betting even though they keep losing. Near Misses are... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/research-center/research-center/near-misses-are-like-winning-to-problem-gamblers/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging Issues in the Use of &#8220;Free Play&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casino Business Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research Center]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoppredatorygambling.org/?p=7844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Non-negotiable slot credits, or what is commonly called &#8220;free play&#8221; has become the primary form of customer incentives in casinos. Today&#8217;s casinos use mail, phone and email solicitations to offer free slot machine play to lure citizens who have rarely... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/research-center/research-center/emerging-issues-in-the-use-of-free-play/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Bloomberg News &#8220;The Sucker Index&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/research-center/research-center/2012-bloomberg-news-the-sucker-index/</link>
		<comments>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/research-center/research-center/2012-bloomberg-news-the-sucker-index/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lotteries: A Failed Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg News ranked U.S. states by what it called &#8220;The Sucker Index&#8221; using 2010 data from the US Census and annual reports from state lottery commissions. The total dollar amount of prizes awarded was subtracted from ticket sales, and then... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/research-center/research-center/2012-bloomberg-news-the-sucker-index/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Nevada, America&#8217;s predatory gambling capital, ranked most violent state in the nation</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/nevada-americas-predatory-gambling-capital-ranked-most-violent-state-in-the-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/nevada-americas-predatory-gambling-capital-ranked-most-violent-state-in-the-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoppredatorygambling.org/?p=7799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Predatory gambling operators often describe their business like its a Disney World for older people but that message is just another story line to the phony PR narrative they relentlessly push across the country. Yesterday, the 2012 United States Peace... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/nevada-americas-predatory-gambling-capital-ranked-most-violent-state-in-the-nation/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Lottery Congratulates Itself for 40 Years of Failure</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/massachusetts-lottery-congratulates-itself-for-40-years-of-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/massachusetts-lottery-congratulates-itself-for-40-years-of-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 04:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broken Promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lotteries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Massachusetts Lottery is throwing itself a State House party to tout its 40th anniversary even though it has been a failed public policy by nearly every measure. How has the Massachusetts Lottery failed over the past four decades? It... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/massachusetts-lottery-congratulates-itself-for-40-years-of-failure/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan editorial reveals the naked truth about casinos in Michigan</title>
		<link>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/michigan-editorial-reveals-the-naked-truth-about-casinos-in-michigan/</link>
		<comments>http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/michigan-editorial-reveals-the-naked-truth-about-casinos-in-michigan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Les</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broken Promises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Impacts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Michigan newspaper editorial strongly urges voters not to fall for the sham argument that casinos represent “economic development” for Michigan. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: &#8220;Expect to hear a lot about economic development and tax revenue. Indeed, the one group that... <a href="http://stoppredatorygambling.org/blog/blog/michigan-editorial-reveals-the-naked-truth-about-casinos-in-michigan/" class="readmore">Read more</a><br/><br/>]]></description>
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