Video gambling a cash cow even for smaller states

Lottery Post — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:09:01 GMT

Surveying West Virginia's rural neighborhoods, where most people lack broadband access to the Internet, you would never guess the state is a lottery cash cow.

That is until you drove by the racetracks that dot major population centers.

There you would see crowds of people shoving streams of dollars into buzzing and blinking video lottery terminals the reason this small state, with one of the country's lowest per-capita incomes is home to one of the most lucrative lotteries in the natio... [ More ]