Casinos have become a large part of cities' economy and hundreds of thousands of people's lives. Casinos are exciting for many people who feel they have a chance to win it big. Because so much money is flowing into casinos, the local business are being affected. Most are not thriving with the new tourism and the seemingly revived economy. In 1994 more people made the trip to a casino then to a ball park (Popkin). The …showed first 75 words of 552 total…

…showed last 75 words of 552 total…and opportunities for the people around the area. If the jobs are supposed to be there to help the state's unemployment, the state government should do a better job of giving the jobs to people in the state. The jobs do not help the state's unemployment if they hire workers from out of state. This defeats one of the main reasons for building a casino. This is having a visible economic impact on different people.