As more states back casinos, inequality rises
Editorial Board, Christian Science Monitor, 9/25/2013
People in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states can now easily drive to a casino. New York may soon join Massachusetts in jumping on the trend. But a visitor to a casino won't find the average American there. Casinos draw a disproportionate number of low-income workers, retirees, minorities, and disabled people, according to a new report by the nonprofit Institute for American Values... "State sponsorship of casinos is a policy contributing to patterns of inequality in America," according to the report, which was endorsed by 33 scholars and based on numerous studies in the United States and elsewhere.