{"id":20975,"date":"2010-07-28T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fred_quinn_the_lessons_from_video_poker\/"},"modified":"2010-07-28T15:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T15:00:13","slug":"fred_quinn_the_lessons_from_video_poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20975","title":{"rendered":"Fred Quinn: The lessons from video poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina had more than 7,500 licensed gambling locations. This number was much higher than Nevada, and the city of Columbia had more licensed locations than Las Vegas. There were more than 37,000 licensed video poker machines \u201d\u201d roughly one for every 100 people in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The gambling industry was taking in a reported $3 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>The money came disproportionately from the poor: In a 1997 survey of video poker players, 48 percent reported making less than $20,000 per year.<\/p>\n<p>The cost far outweighed the gain&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2010\/07\/25\/1388844\/quinn-the-lessons-from-video-poker.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina had more than 7,500 licensed gambling locations. This number was much higher than Nevada, and the city of Columbia had more licensed locations than Las Vegas. There were more than 37,000 licensed video poker machines \u201d\u201d roughly one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20975\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,149,87,114,151,88,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy","category-gambling","category-law-legal-issues","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}