Casinos bring advantages - 2004-01-21
As new dueling researcg predicts the upside and downside of a proposed Ho-Chunk casino here, social services information from Milwaukee, Brown and Sauk counties from recent years show sometimes striking local benefits from existing casinos.
A 1998 study by the Cambridge, Mass.-based Economics Resource Group, for instance, found that several years later after the Ho-Chunk's casino in Baraboo opened in 1992, 56 percent fewer tribe members needed welfare... and 52 percent fewer received food stamps.
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