Reflecting on 40 years of gaming in Atlantic City [photos]

    Tomorrow marks 40 years since the gambling referendum passed in New Jersey. And one week from today, the state will ask voters to again approve gaming, this time in North Jersey.

     

    NewsWorks host Dave Heller looks back, and then ahead, on the effects of the casino industry on Atlantic City with Gwendolyn Harris, executive director of the Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs at Rutgers Camden.

    • WHYY thanks our sponsors — become a WHYY sponsor

    WHYY is your source for fact-based, in-depth journalism and information. As a nonprofit organization, we rely on financial support from readers like you. Please give today.

    Want a digest of WHYY’s programs, events & stories? Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

    Together we can reach 100% of WHYY’s fiscal year goal