The New York Times Magazine Exposes Modern Slot Machines
This must-read New York Times Magazine cover story by Gary Rivlin exposes the slot machine business as predatory and deceptive. New York Times story on slots by Gary Rivlin
This must-read New York Times Magazine cover story by Gary Rivlin exposes the slot machine business as predatory and deceptive. New York Times story on slots by Gary Rivlin
UIGEA 2006 – Fact Sheet
Prior to the massive crash of the highly-predatory subprime lending business which nearly every state Attorney General sued for their predatory practices, former Harrah’s top executive Rich Mirman boasted to
A 2009 report by the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York Albany concluded that predatory gambling worsens long term budgetary problems for states. Read the
Yale University’s Emily Haisley analyzed why poor people play the lottery even more when times are tough. Read this New York Times story about her report. Citation: Carnegie Mellon University (2008,
This essay written by Barbara Dafoe Whitehead appeared in the July/August 2008 issue of The American Interest. It is excerpted and adapted from For a New Thrift: Confronting the Debt
U.S. Department of Justice – Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice, July, 2004 This report, funded and published by the U.S. Department of Justice studied people who had
Predatory gambling in Australia has matured faster than that in America, providing valuable lessons on addiction. Mark Dickerson, a noted academic from the University of Western Sydney, shared his work
Studies of lottery spending, including this study from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in 2008, show lottery revenue comes largely from Social Security, unemployment and other forms of
Some researchers funded by predatory gambling interests attempt to argue that after the introduction of extreme forms of gambling into a community addiction rates will spike but then, over a