{
  "id": "2001-januaryfebruary-stories",
  "slug": "2001-januaryfebruary-stories",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2001-januaryfebruary-stories.html",
  "year": 2001,
  "month": "January/February",
  "monthNum": 1,
  "headline": "Stories",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE",
  "summary": "An AP investigation using computer-assisted reporting reveals that despite the American Indian gambling industry's explosive growth from $100 million to $8.26 billion between 1988-1998, poverty and unemployment rates in tribal communities remained largely unchanged. A Rhode Island Journal-Bulletin investigation into state lottery corruption prompted multiple investigations and the dismissal of the lottery director.",
  "keywords": [
    "gambling",
    "investigation",
    "corruption"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Government & Politics",
    "Data & Databases"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "For more on gambling, call the IRE Resource Center, (573) 882-3364.\n\nStory # 17010. In this article, the Associated Press uses computer-assisted reporting to find \"the American Indian gambling industry has boomed, with annual revenues increasing from $100 million in 1988 to $8.26 billion in 1998. Poverty and unemployment rates changed little during that period.\"\n\nStory # 13853. The Journal-Bulletin (Providence, R.I.) investigation into the state lottery leads to the dismissal of director of the lottery, investigations by the attorney general, state auditor and state Ethics Commission and the cancellation of a contract that would have put the state gambling agency in the television bingo business.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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