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In response to our study for the Seneca Nation, Dianne Bennett, a leader of the opposition to the Buffalo Creek Casino, said in Friday's News, "To my knowledge, there is not one economic study that hasn't been commissioned by the gambling industry or supported by gambling interests that says gambling is good for an economy."
A quick trip to the Web would expand her knowledge. She would find that a bipartisan commission, appointed by Congress and the president, assembled gambling proponents and opponents to look into the question. The National Gambling Impact Study Commission contracted two academic studies of casino impacts, and though they applied different methods, both studies linked casinos with economic vitality.See the full content of this document
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Independent Studies Document Benefits of Casinos
In one, a Penn State economist, professor Adam Z. Rose, assembled 100 books and articles about casino econom...
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