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Gambling Affect The Economy

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Gambling is placing money or something of monetary value on an event that you do not know what the outcome will be. Casinos are the general location of which gambling takes place. There are benefits of gambling economically, but there are more negatives on local businesses. The question remains, does gambling ruin the economy further or is gambling helping the economy develop? The gambling industry has a very important impact on the United States economy. As of 2013, it held the direct employment of 570,000 people, with total jobs impact of 1.7 million, which included nearly 200,000 government jobs (Wells 2014). In 2013, revenues from the casino industries totaled to 81 billion dollars, including 30 billion dollars form Native American casinos. The total impact of the casinos in the year 2013 was 240 billion dollars, with 102 billion as a direct economic impact, but this does not include the cost of constructing new casinos (Wells 2014). Casinos may in fact provide a large amount of jobs for people, but their impact on neighboring property values is “unambiguously negative,” according to the economists at the National Association of Realtors (Frum 2014). Casinos do not always have a positive impact on the cities they are located in, they do …show more content…

Gambling causes more problems economically and socially, that it is not seen as a positive industry for the economy. For some, it drags them further and further into debt which is huge matter for the United States. The national debt is already so big and the casino industry does not help with the matter. It can cause psychological changes in families, often leading to the father or husband abusing their children or spouse and turning to alcohol in hopes of drowning out the issues with money. Gambling will ruin your life and the decisions you make will not only affect you and your family, but it affects the economic state of your

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