Unemployment is one of the reasons why people gamble that's right but it is actually a lazy excuse because gambling isn't much of an alternative...people gamble with the wishful thinking of becoming financially stable thought it with zero guarantees of achieving this...we are no longer in the stone ages so the government of any country cannot fully put a stop to gambling, people would still find a way to gamble
I don't even believe that unemployment could be the reason why people are gambling when gambling doesn't make any one rich overnight rather you will keep losing the one you have to gambling until when you get lucky to win something you may still lose to them. Gambling doesn't make anyone to be financially stable it takes more from people if the government decides to put a stop to gambling it will take them many years to achieve that result because there are so many ways to gamble be it online or offline and people have already secured different ways of gambling the government can not discover all the ways so they can't successfully put a stop to it.