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
A must-read piece by nationally acclaimed investigative journalist David Cay Johnston. Read the whole piece here. An excerpt: “After decades of resisting easy-money promises by gambling moguls, New York State
“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
From The Washington Post: Despite their role in increasing economic inequality, lotteries remain remarkably popular in the United States, as millions of players believe in the distant chance that a
This essay ran in The Public Interest in 1996. It remains one of the most persuasive about the ways in which state-sanctioned gambling severely damages American society and worsens people’s
Warren Buffett on Gambling – Transcript
According to the survey of 1,000 Americans by Opinion Research Corporation for the Consumer Federation of America and the Financial Planning Association, 21% of Americans believed that the lottery would be