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Thursday, September 19, 2013

33 Scholars Link State-Sponsored Casinos to Economic



An important new report was released this week about government’s promotion of casinos. I'm writing to urge you to please share it widely with opinion leaders in your region of the country such as journalists, newspaper editors, public officials, business leaders, civic groups and non-profits.
 
By promoting casino gambling to its own citizens, government has unleashed a host of troubling problems: it is harming health, draining wealth from people in the lower ranks of the income distribution, and contributing to economic inequality. These are among the findings of Why Casinos Matter: Thirty-One Evidence-Based Propositions from the Health and Social Sciences, a report released today from the Council on Casinos, an independent group of scholars and public policy leaders convened by the Institute for American Values, a New York City-based think tank.
 
"State sponsored casino gambling creates a stratified pattern that parallels the separate and unequal life patterns in education, marriage, work, and play that increasingly divides Americans into 'haves' and 'have-nots,'" the report says.
 
We thank the Council on Casinos for doing the kind of analysis this critical issue hasn’t seen since the National Gambling Impact Study Commission report almost fifteen years ago. Sponsored by the President and Congress, the report called for a moratorium on government-sponsored gambling because the evidence then, like today, was incriminating.

 
Casino interests and their lobbying groups like the American Gaming Association have spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying the political process and controlling the public health and economic research about commercial gambling.
 
Despite all of this spending to willfully deceive the public, this report, relying on independent research and endorsed by 33 prominent American scholars, lays bare the evidence that government's public policy of promoting casinos has directly contributed to the rise of inequality in America.

 
We will soon be issuing a call for full Congressional hearings examining the findings of this report. But first, we need you to share the report with opinion leaders in your region to build a better understanding about why casinos matter and how they are changing American life.





Thanks.
Les Bernal
Executive Director
Stop Predatory Gambling
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