{"id":4855,"date":"2012-02-23T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2012-02-23T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T21:24:32","slug":"was-gambling-in-oklahoma-a-good-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/23\/was-gambling-in-oklahoma-a-good-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Gambling in Oklahoma a Good Bet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4857\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 293px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Click here to see Stateline's state-by-state comparison of gambling promises vs. revenue returns.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateline.org\/live\/details\/story?contentId=633987\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4857\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"Stateline: Have Gambling Investments Paid Off?\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/stateline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/stateline.jpg 293w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/02\/stateline-150x67.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click here to see Stateline&#39;s state-by-state comparison of gambling promises vs. revenue returns.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Stateline has <a href=\"http:\/\/stateline.org\/live\/details\/story?contentId=633296\">an interesting<\/a> story that compares the pre-opening promises and the revenue reality of legalized gambling around the country.<\/p><p>In the 13 states that have legalized casinos, racinos and lotteries in the last decade, two-thirds of them haven&#8217;t kept promises &#8220;made by political and industry champions,&#8221; Ben Wieder reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While on the campaign trail in 2002, former Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry predicted that a lottery could bring the state $300 million a year to help education. The Democrat later revised those numbers down to $150 million, but the actual return has been more like $70 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stateline has an interesting story that compares the pre-opening promises and the revenue reality of legalized gambling around the country.In the 13 states that have legalized casinos, racinos and lotteries in the last decade, two-thirds of them haven&#8217;t kept promises &#8220;made by political and industry champions,&#8221; Ben Wieder reports. While on the campaign trail in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,15],"tags":[319,40,320],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}