The At Issue series includes a wide range of opinion on a single controversial issue. Each volume covers both primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives-eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials and many others. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations to contact offer a gateway to further research.

The casino boom in the 1980s and 1990s brought national attention to legalized gambling throughout the United States. Whereas advocates for the rapidly growing gaming industry contend that gambling will revitalize local economies with more jobs, tourism, and tax money for the host communities, others claim that much of that tax money rarely reaches the majority of community residents and, instead, brings a higher rate of crime, violence, and bankruptcy, not to mention encourages compulsive gambling. Because casinos are still being built and lottery jackpots are continuing to grow, the debates...

Despite being the largest minority in the United States - a minority that anyone can join at any time in one's life - those with disabilities have traditionally remained a hidden minority. From the institutionalization of the handicapped for centuries in the United States to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's concealment of his battle with polio, disabilities have often been stigmatized as private struggles. However, the successes of civil rights movements rallied disabled Americans and their supporters to campaign for acceptance of disabilities and for equal protection under law. "Rights...