It wants no competition for our large, undereducated, low-wage labor pool. Once that argument can no longer be made and gambling begins to devour its own home communities, it will begin to be banned. We have long and sorry experience here as to the social costs extracted by the industry, again something you may review via the search engines and the news links below. If your thrust is education, I further suggest you look at educational impacts in Mississippi. You might also look at the California Indian Gaming Website as another resource.
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Thanks for your interest and please let us know how else we may be of service. We would like to see the result of your research. It was later published in book form by the University of Nevada Press. Curiously, someone purchased every remaining copy just at the time Sen. Neal introduced his gaming tax hike in the 1999 legislative session. I escaped with the last one.