Position Paper: Casinos
The state unemployment rate reached 9.4% in December, double what it was a year ago, and the Commonwealth is facing a $2.75 billion budget gap. Massachusetts must look to unconventional sources of job creation and revenue production. Resort-style casinos - gaming facilities with associated restaurants, hotels and entertainment venues - should be part of the solution. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Murphy recently wrote, “[p]articularly in the hardest hit regions of the commonwealth, destination gaming holds out the potential for both short and long term economic opportunity.”
