Pa.'s horse-racing industry gets more state money than Health or Agriculture Departments

The Inquirer: Pennsylvania dropped $239 million into the saddlebags of the state’s struggling horse-racing industry last year, bringing the total amount given to the moribund Sport of Kings to $2.6 billion during the last decade.

The money did not come from people betting on horses. It came from hundreds of thousands of slot-machine players who lost it — sometimes a penny at a time — at the state’s 12 operating casinos.

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