By Susan Breslow Sardone, About.com
Thirty years of legalized gambling have not been profitable for all in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
A block away from the glittering Boardwalk hotels, two blocks from the Boardwalk itself, the town remains mired in poverty.
"Cash for Gold" and psychic and tarot-card readers' storefronts are plentiful, drawing the desperate and the unlucky from the underside of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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