In Upper Hutt, a city with a population of 46,000 as of June 2019, roughly $25,000 a day is put into the pokies, Snowden says. "Good luck finding a pokie machine on Parnell Rise," Snowden quipped. People in disadvantaged communities spend three times more on gambling than those in affluent neighbourhoods. The shocking statistics show that 50 percent of pokie machines can be found among New Zealand's lowest socio-economic areas, while 30 percent of gambling losses come from 'problem gamblers'. $7 million to $7.6 million in income tax."If that money wasn't going into pokie gambling, what would happen to it?" "It's very clear that the people who are losing money on pokies would spend it elsewhere in the economy," Snowden told The AM Show on Tuesday. Yet the amount of money put into the pokies each year could be generating an additional $445 million in retail if people would spend their cash "productively", says Paula Snowden, CEO of the Problem Gambling Foundation. In New Zealand's most disadvantaged areas, many are tempted to sacrifice what little they have on the off-chance the pokies deliver their 'get rich quick' promises.
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