Gambling not off the table
Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he’s still willing to talk about gambling expansion to pay for a statewide construction program. He says he won’t rule it out if others want to talk about more casinos to raise revenue to build roads, bridges and schools.
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Do you know that:
- People earning $10,000 per year gamble more than twice as much money as people earning $30-40,000 per year. People earning $10,000 per year gamble four times as much money as those making $80,000 or more per year.
- The most popular form of charitable gambling is bingo. In California, bingo is the only charitable game that is legal.
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
- The introduction of the single zero wheel (with better odds for the player) resulted in the demise of the double zero wheels in Europe and has become known as the "French Wheel" in roulette history.
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