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Indian Casinos: More Is Less Education

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Published on Daily Yonder (http://www.dailyyonder.com) July 29, 2010 A controversial study finds that Indian casinos are good for low-wage workers but unlikely to produce more high-wage earners. bingo cards Mohawk Bingo Palace [8] Casino gambling has increased employment and raised wages on Indian reservations, but, according to one study, casino work is luring young Native Americans from continuing their educations. A study of tribal casinos shows a checkered pattern of benefits and drawbacks for those on the reservation. William Evans and Wooyoung Kim found that when casinos open, local wages and employment rates improve, but drop-out rates increase and rates of college enrollment tend to decline. Evans, an economist at Notre Dame University, presented their paper ?The Impact of Local Labor Market Conditions on the Demand for Education [9]? in May at the Harvard Kennedy School [10]...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 04, 2010 (boomark / email).