Top urban experts agree: urban casinos are counterproductive to economic health, city- ruining of the highest order. Virtually every serious study that has ever been done of the economic impacts of casinos shows that their costs far exceed their benefits and that they are a poor use of precious downtown land.
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Despite a mountain of evidence, states continue to partner with powerful gambling corporations to promote ever more extreme forms of