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Kansas Has Biggest Jump in Casino Tax Revenue, New Jersey Has Largest Drop
New casinos helped Kansas, Maryland, Maine and New York benefit from huge increases in casino tax revenue last year, while Hurricane Sandy took a toll in New Jersey more
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Gambling Revenue Promises Rarely Met
More than two-thirds of states that legalized casinos, lotteries or racetrack casinos in the past 10 years have yet to see the state and local revenue that political and industry champions of legalization had promised. more
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Casinos, Online Poker Get State Attention
Massachusetts is planning new resort-style gambling casinos, and Florida and New York may open their first commercial casinos as a way to generate more tax revenue. Meanwhile, states that already have casinos are looking at new ways to tap the gambling that takes place online illegally.more -
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Table Games Open in Pennsylvania
TODAY'S TAKE: By opening table games at six casinos near the New Jersey border within the last week, Pennsylvania is aggressively pursuing its eastern neighbor's gambling market. New Jersey leaders see trouble for the state's pocketbook. more
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States Scramble for Gambling Jackpot
States are aggressively tapping into one of the easiest ways to bring cash to their coffers: Let gamblers lose on slots, poker and roulette - and carve out a big take for state treasuries. Kansas is taking that approach one step further with a plan to own and operate its commercial casinos.more -
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Indian Casinos Boom to Tribes and States
States and Native American tribes have increasingly relied on gambling, one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the United States, to generate money for schools and other public services and for tax relief. A new report finds that the Indian gaming industry continued a decade-long trend of strong growth in 2005.more -
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48 States Raking in Gambling Proceeds
States are more addicted to gambling revenue than ever as the lure of easy new money for schools, tax relief and public services has led to an explosion of state-sanctioned casinos, slot machines at racetracks and lottery games. A new poll shows some softening in public approval of states' reliance on gambling money. But tax-averse legislatures are turning gambling into a mainstream form of entertainment.more -
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States Vie for Bigger Payouts from Tribal Casinos
Cash-strapped states are trying to tap into American Indian gambling revenues but aren't always hitting the jackpot. While California struck a deal with five tribes this year that will mean millions of additional dollars for state coffers, Minnesota, thus far, has struck out in its bid to get a share of tribes take. At stake for states are billions in untaxable revenues an estimated $16.7 billion pulled in by Indian-run casinos and tribal gaming in 2003. more
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States Turn to Gambling to Fix Budget Woes
States are betting on slots and casinos to keep their finances in the black. The question of whether to bring in or expand gambling is dividing statehouses across the country. At least 24 states had gambling proposals on the table this year. Maine, New York and Oklahoma acted this year to bring slot machines to racetracks, and voters this November in at least four states California, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Ohio may get to decide whether to bring in more gaming. more
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States Set Ballot Fights: Maine to Vote on Casino
Maine's Nov. 4 referendum on building a casino will influence the future of the Pine Tree States struggling economy, said pro- and anti-gambling groups. Ballot questions in other states will decide issues ranging from starting a video lottery program in Colorado to allowing childrens videotaped testimony in criminal proceedings in Pennsylvania. more
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Ohio Is Latest State to Feel Pressure to Install Video Slots
What do you do if your state's budget is hard-up for cash and you're surrounded by other states that have legalized video slot machines or gambling casinos? You do what Ohio is doing - you consider giving in and installing the slot machines yourself. more
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Indian Gaming Revenues Spark New Sovereignty Fight
Native American tribes and state governments are fighting over back casino payments in New Mexico. Kansas Gov. Bill Graves is going to court to keep two Oklahoma tribes from opening casinos in his state. California's Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional last fall's Proposition 5, which allowed Indian gambling. These are just a few of the flashpoints in an increasingly bitter dispute over burgeoning revenues from Indian casinos. For more information, click on more