Excerpt from Wall Street Journal Article, "Ballot Initiative on Greyhounds Hits the Tracks", New England Section, 10/4/00, by Adrianne Apple.

 

"A Web site run by the track owners' coalition (maic2000.org) points to job preservation as one reason for protecting the tracks. The site says nearly 2,000 people in Massachusetts work full and part time at the tracks. But figures provided by track representatives add up to a total of only about half that. Mr. Carney estimates his track employs somewhere between 135 to 150 full-time workers and 350 part-timers. Richard Dalton, president and chief of Westwood group and Wonderland, says the track has 450 employees in all and can't provide figures for the breakdown between full- and part-timers."

 

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