Under the direction of federal guidelines, the BIA engaged an independent consultant, Analytical Environmental Services, to assess the socioeconomic impact of the Beloit casino and to prepare the Final Environmental Impact Statement that is required to address the casino’s socioeconomic impact on the people of Wisconsin. AES then hired The Innovation Group, another consultant, to determine the casino’s socioeconomic impact component of the FEIS. However, it is now confirmed that TIG is the same consultant hired by the Ho-Chunk to...

This is a great article on the impact that expansive gambling has had on UK’s citizens, and what we can expect here in the US if we continue to expand gambling. There have always been gambling addicts. Go back in time to Britain’s official inquiries into gambling in 1978, 1951 or even the 1930s and you will find the same concerns being expressed about the dangers it posed to the public, particularly those on middle or lower incomes. As late...