Gaming hasn’t changed everything in Tunica
Changes in Tunica since the arrival of gambling a decade-and-a-half, once dubbed the poorest town in America, have not been as dramatic as other communities across the county, said Brooks Taylor, editor and publisher of the Tunica Times, but an influx of casinos there has had an overall positive impact.
Taylor was recently interviewed by a Delco Times reporter in Delaware County, PA, about Tunica and what has happened there since the casinos opened. A rural town, Tunica had an unemployment rate on par with Joliet, PA when casinos arrived, though it hasn’t seen the kind of influx of people Joliet has since.