02-14-10, 09:31 AM
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Lucky Jack 
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- Tribes receive $4 of every $10 that Americans wager at casinos.
- Indian casinos earn $26.7 billion in 2008 revenues.
- There are 425 Indian gaming facilities.
- 240 tribes operate casinos.
- Indian gaming operates in 28 states
- 24 states allow full-scale Indian casinos, 4 allow only Class II casinos (bingo slots)
- Indian casinos provide 712,000 jobs with $27 billion in wages
- Indian gaming paid $10.8 billion in local, state and federal taxes in 2008.
- Indian gaming pays $1.3 billion in taxes to federal, state, local governments.
Source: National Indian Gaming Commission www.nigc.gov
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