Resorting to casinos : the Mississippi gambling industry / edited by Denise von Herrmann.
After the devastation Hurricane Katrina wrought on Mississippi's Gulf Coast casinos, media nationwide reported the loss in revenue the state was bound to suffer. From just those casinos shut down or destroyed by the storm, 500,000 in tax revenue had poured into Mississippi's coffers every...
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University Press of Mississippi,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- The casino resort solution to Mississippi's problems : an introduction / Denise von Herrmann
- Mississippi's oldest pastime / Deanne Stephens Nuwer and Greg O'Brien
- Mississippi : the politics of casino gambling / Michael Nelson and John Lyman Mason
- Racial politics of casino gaming in the Delta : the case of Tunica County / Sharon Wright Austin and Richard T. Middleton IV
- Were casinos a solution for state economic growth? / Denise von Herrmann
- The impact of casino gambling on municipal revenue, expenditures, and fiscal health / Edward J. Clynch, Douglas G. Feig, and James B. Kaatz
- The financial implications of casino gaming on state and local education policy in Mississippi / Rodney E. Stanley
- A day in the night of a casino worker : shift work culture of Mississippi dockside gaming employees / Dena C. Wittmann
- Casinos, crime, and the costs of criminal justice / Richards Davis
- The future of the casino resort industry in Mississippi / Brian Richard.