50 MILES
The National Gambling
Impact Study, created and funded by Congress, found that the rate of problem
and addicted gamblers doubles within a 50-mile radius of a new casino.
About 4% or nearly 250,000
Massachusetts residents already had a gambling problem within the past
year.
250,000 people amounts to the entire population of the towns of Middleborough,
Raynham, Taunton, Plainville, Palmer, Revere, and New Bedford combined.
Now our state is proposing to increase that number with the addition of three
new casinos. Our state government will be creating a new population of addicted
gamblers, affecting their spouses, children, employers and the wider community.
Raising revenue off of the addiction of some of its citizens is not good
government.
Visit, write or call your State
Representative. The Massachusetts
House of Representatives will be critical to keeping casinos out of the
Commonwealth. To find out who your State Representative is, visit:
www.wheredoivotema.com Then email
council@masscouncilofchurches.org to let us know how it went!