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The report entitled "Why Casino's Matter" was spearheaded by the Institute for American Values in New York City and vetted and endorsed by 33 scholars and civic leaders from across the political spectrum. The study grew out of an earlier report that addressed predatory lending institutions, said Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, the researcher at the Institute for American values who spearheaded the report... The rapid growth of state-sponsored gambling, the authors argue, is "affecting our health, our economics, our politics, our ideas and social values, and perhaps even who we are as a people and what obligations we have toward one another."