With the announcement earlier this month that New York City will soon welcome three glittering new gambling houses, America\u2019s multidecade experiment in casino expansion is all but complete. The house, as they say, is winning.<\/p>\n
To state the obvious, casinos are popular. About 134 million Americans visited one in the past year, a record. Coast to coast, the US now has more than 1,000 of them, the most in the world. All told, they pulled in gross gambling revenue of about $72 billion<\/a> in 2024, supporting (the industry says) 1.8 million jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the announcement earlier this month that New York City will soon welcome three glittering new gambling houses,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3339,5867,10429,5865,3415,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,3610,14846,39711,16826],"class_list":["post-80129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-cities","tag-design","tag-gambling","tag-infrastructure","tag-jobs","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-public-health","tag-tax-revenue","tag-trust-fund","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}