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For a public policy innovation this large, the casino-government complex has received little scrutiny, which a new report by the Institute for American Values, "Why Casinos Matter," seeks to remedy. It is a crash course in the political and social hazards of funding public purposes through the exploitation of human weakness... [A]s the Institute for American Values points out, "State sponsorship of casinos is one of the most successful bipartisan public policies in today's politically polarized culture. . . . States like Mississippi and Massachusetts may be worlds apart politically, but both have decided . . . that casino gambling is a good way to win hard-won dollars from citizens who can least afford to lose them."