Gambling dollars coming back to cities this month
DEADWOOD — Lawrence County towns and one school district will get thousands of dollars in additional state revenue, redistributed from the Deadwoods gambling formula.
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Do you know that:
- Indian tribes have used their position as sovereign entities to develop a number of gaming establishments. Indian casinos operate in 22 states. This number is expected to grow.
- Catholics were found to be more likely to gamble than Protestants and other religious groups. Catholics were also found to be less likely to disapprove of gambling than other religious groups.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
- During the 1950s, the Senate Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce held a number of hearings on criminal influence in the casino industry. The committee was chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver, and the committee is also known by his name.
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