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Online gambling 101: What the new gambling expansion means for states
Online lotto – and virtual slot machines, blackjack, and poker – could be coming to your state or one near you. Here are five questions on internet gambling, following the US Justice Department's policy reversal late last year, possibly producing a boon to both the industry and state budgets.
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Online gambling 101: What the new gambling expansion means for states
Online lotto – and virtual slot machines, blackjack, and poker – could be coming to your state or one near you. Here are five questions on internet gambling, following the US Justice Department's policy reversal late last year, possibly producing a boon to both the industry and state budgets.
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The Monitor's View: Obama's new tax on the poor: Internet gambling by states
The Obama Justice Department quietly issued a legal opinion – just before a long Christmas weekend – that allows states to set up nonsports Internet gambling. The opinion upends decades of contrary decisions, but its real effect will be on the poor (and young) who suffer the most from gambling.
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The Monitor's View: Don't fold on Internet gambling ban
The Obama Justice Department scored the first conviction under a 2006 law that outlaws online gaming, including poker. More convictions may be coming. But monied interests are pushing Congress to scrap the law.
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The Monitor's View: Don't fold on Internet gambling ban
A 2006 US law has cut Web-based betting. If anything, the law needs to be toughened.
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