By Yvonne Abraham
Nearly 400 underage users in two states were caught in the past year on sports gambling websites, according to filings with regulators in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
By Yvonne Abraham
Nearly 400 underage users in two states were caught in the past year on sports gambling websites, according to filings with regulators in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
By Eric Wilken
Research using Child Protective Services data shows sports betting legalization increased substantiated child maltreatment reports by 5–7%. The study leveraged the staggered rollout across states to isolate betting’s effect, finding the increase is driven almost entirely by mobile betting rather than in-person wagering. The timing of reports—clustering around major sporting events and weekends—suggests the connection runs through gambling-related stress and losses.
By Katherine Long, Caitlin Ostroff, Neil Mehta and Brenna T. Smith
“The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation”
They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real – WSJ
By Angela Rintoul, Ann-Marie Ashton, and Scott J. Fitzpatrick
Key Findings
By Derek Webb
Key Facts
By Charles Fain Lehman
“…is legal sports gambling actually a net positive for state budgets? This report argues no,”
https://manhattan.institute/article/a-bad-bet-why-sports-gambling-tax-revenue-disappoints
By Oliver Morrison
“When Samir came home in April, he asked his parents for $100,000 to pay off his gambling debts.
‘People are after me. You don’t know. I’m in deep (expletive),” his mother, Tara, said he told her. “I’m not gonna be alive tomorrow. Either they’re gonna kill me or I’m gonna jump off the balcony.'”
By Weston Blasi
“A report released just days before the start of the FIFA World Cup finds a correlation between sports betting and not having enough to eat.”
By Jacob Goss & Daniel Mangrum
“Sports Betting Across Borders: Spatial Spillovers, Credit Distress, and Fiscal Externalities”