CASINO WATCH
Bankruptcy facts:

• Costs of new pathological gamblers in 3 years were $9 billion
  
  
• By 2000, bankruptcy costs due to gambling - $220 per household
  
  
• Gambling could be the fastest-growing cause bankruptcy
  
  
• Counties with gambling had an 18% higher bankruptcy rate
  
  
• 21% of Illinois Gamblers Anonymous members had filed bankruptcy
  
  
• Rates are higher in counties with gambling facilities
  
  
• Casino gambling being blamed for the rising tide of bankruptcy
  
  
• Gamblers can bankrupt the family
  
  
• Gambling financially and spiritually bankrupts
  
  
• NV bankruptcy rates are climbing
  
  
• NV man filed $4 million bankruptcy, lost 10 homes and 2 businesses
  
  
• NV - Average bankruptcy debt loss $9,556
  
  
• LA bankruptcy filings 14.4 percent in 2001
  
  
• MS in 2001 increased nearly 21 percent over the previous year
  
  
• TN high rates in nation, attributed to Tunica, MS casinos
  
  
• IL University - gambling accessibility brings more bankruptcies
  
  
• IL - Increase in bankruptcies coincides with boats' arrival
  
  
• IA - 25% filing record high bankruptcies are gamblers
  
  
• IA bankruptcies jumped 34% in 2001
  
  
• NM bankruptcies up 22% in 2001
  
  
• NY record level bankruptcies attributed to gambling