![]() ![]() Gambling facilities have created jobs, but have also offered new temptations for habitual gamblers wishing to test their luck - some of whom end up losing their shirts. But state funding for education, which is the stated sole purpose for the lottery, has actually decreased in recent years even as state gaming revenue has soared. The state has touted gambling’s contributions to education, job creation and horse-racing as reasons to raise the stakes. ![]() Gaming companies, contractors, lobbyists and politicians are so far the clearest-cut winners, along with the few, individual jackpot winners. But unlike DiMauro’s tracking of wins and losses, determining whether New York State’s nearly 50-year-old gaming experiment has broken even is no simple calculation. With chips already on the table, New York is deciding whether to double down on an experiment with state-sponsored gambling that began in 1967 with the New York Lottery.
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