Claim OwnershipScratch & Win
Description
Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble, legally at least. We’ve got casinos, sports betting, online poker, keno — but it was all made possible by state lotteries, which brought gambling out of the shadows and into the public square — into the government itself.
“Scratch & Win” follows the unlikely rise of America’s most successful lottery. We begin in 1970s Boston, with state bureaucrats going toe to toe with mafia bookmakers, and each other, as they struggle to launch the state's greatest innovation: the scratch ticket. But the story reaches all the way to the present moment. How do we feel about the gambling industry that lotteries helped summon into being? And should the state be in this business at all?
“Scratch & Win” is made by the Peabody Award-winning team behind “The Big Dig,” produced by GBH News and distributed by PRX.
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Credits:
Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss
Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins
Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss
Story Editor: Lacy Roberts
Editorial Advisor: Jen McKim
Fact Checkers: Ryan Alderman and Isabel Hibbard
Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss
Graphic Design: Bill Miller
Project Manager: Meiqian He
United States
agree, 0.3? cost/benefit? maybe benefit/cost ? hmmm
Ugh, another podcast that treats race and socio-economic status as the same thing. They should've started by explaining how injustice is transferred across generations via pigmentation. That is, why are people who never were enslaved due reparations? Economic disadvantage isn't pigmented. If economic disadvantage is the problem, then we should address systems of economic disadvantage for everyone, not just people with particular pigmentation or ancestry. And why not start with American Indians?
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I love this podcast. I was a child when they began the big dig and my dad's family was from Boston. I remember the hullabaloo even though I was only 10 when it began. The backstory is fascinating to this son of an engineer.
Great series overall. Thanks for making it.
@23:57: It seems the host is bad at math.
@4:10+: Unintelligible