To estimate the economic impacts, the EPPR staff considered both operations (spending on vendors, employees and government entities) and patron spending (within the casino, as well as in Everett and the surrounding region). The UMass Amherst School of Public Health & Health Sciences has been engaged by the gaming commission since 2013 to carry out a comprehensive, multiyear research project, believed to be the first of its kind, on the social and economic impacts of introducing casino gambling in Massachusetts. 30 to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) as part of the ongoing work of Social and Economic Impacts of Gambling in Massachusetts (SEIGMA).
The report’s findings were presented Nov.
