From the editor.

• Author: Rogers, Carol O.
• Position: Recessions - Editorial - Brief article

Almost everyone does it. Gambling, that is. According to the Pew Research Center, nearly everyone gambles to some extent or another. And nearly all states have legalized it, according to the American Gaming Association. A quick look at our back cover for this issue shows us that nearly all states support gambling of one kind or another. Why? To paraphrase a long-extinct presidential campaign (think 1990s), "it's the economy, stupid!" Once that first state took the gamble on legalized gaming, there was little doubt most states would jump into the river of chips (a look at the maps on the back cover show Utah and Hawaii as the only hold-outs against any form of legalized...