This powerful essay by Elizabeth Winslow McAuliffe in Public Integrity shows how the lottery is a public policy failure by spotlighting two fact-based conclusions: 1) the evidence indicates that the original aims of the state lottery have not been fulfilled; and 2) the lottery cannot be defended as an ethical enterprise for government.
Bright Lights: what one woman’s 25-year gambling addiction to electronic gambling machines really cost
Through this animated documentary by The Guardian, ‘Sharon’ reveals the devastating impact electronic gambling machines have had on her life.