(The Center Square) – The last day of legality arrived Tuesday for an estimated 70,000 so-called “skill games” that were pulling in money at clubs and small businesses across Pennsylvania – and with it came the end of a job for at least some people.
Ralph Elia, who operates four bars in Berks County in the southeastern part of the state, was among what was expected to be a significant number of small business owners who would be forced to let employees go. The electronic games – ruled this year to be illegal slot machines by the state Supreme Court – were bringing in 80% of the net revenue at some of his locations…