National Conference 2025 Recap
Learn about the impacts Predatory Gambling is having across American society. Watch the excellent sessions below, recorded at our 2025 National Conference. What America Doesn’t Know About Online Gambling
Learn about the impacts Predatory Gambling is having across American society. Watch the excellent sessions below, recorded at our 2025 National Conference. What America Doesn’t Know About Online Gambling
By Jonathan D. Cohen and Isaac Rose-Berman Mr. Cohen is the author of “Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling.” Mr. Rose-Berman is a fellow at the American Institute
Read the whole story here. Here’s an excerpt: “What my research indicates is that casinos don’t add to the economy of a city – in fact, in recessionary times, they
“A Conflict Between Love and Greed” – Learn about the crisis of state-sanctioned gambling. Stop Predatory Gambling’s Les Bernal was invited to speak on the crisis of state-sanctioned casinos before
(Note: The image above is the $100 lottery scratch ticket the Texas Lottery is selling in low-income communities across the state where citizens earn $7.25 an hour. The MLK image
Below is the testimony of Les Bernal, National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling, before a Georgia Legislature study committee on gambling in October 2019. As part of his presentation, Bernal
Warren Buffett on Gambling – Transcript
This report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia concludes that the local benefits of casinos would be outweighed by costs such as increases in pathological gambling, crime and personal
This report from the Productivity Commission of Australia (the Australian Government’s independent research and advisory body) provides an in-depth analysis of the effects of the predatory gambling industry on the
Despite developing two of the largest casinos on the planet in the 1990s, the state of Connecticut is in dire fiscal shape. The New York Times piece below states that