This essay ran in The Public Interest in 1996. It remains one of the most persuasive about the ways in which state-sanctioned gambling severely damages American society and worsens people’s lives.
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Despite a mountain of evidence, states continue to partner with powerful gambling corporations to promote ever more extreme forms of