This includes the impact of the casino’s intermediate spending, the consumer spending of Encore employees, new revenue to state and local government entities and shifts in consumer spending.” Total Combined Impacts “As we have observed with Massachusetts’ other two casinos, the number of people directly employed by the casino, while substantial, is actually less than the jobs created or supported by the ‘ripple effect’ of the casino’s operations. “Although Encore Boston Harbor opened in 2019, 2022 was the first year where the SEIGMA team was able to observe a full year of operations with no shutdowns or restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Tom Peake, EPPR senior research analyst. EPPR also obtained revenue data and data on patron spending from a survey of casino patrons conducted by the SEIGMA team. To conduct the analysis, EPPR obtained operator data collected by the MGC, including employment, payroll and purchasing data obtained directly from the casino. 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.

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