By Randall Kerr “Opponents have long argued that state lotteries are a tax on the poor. Twenty years after the first ticket was sold in North Carolina, WRAL Investigates examined
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
Texas Lottery under investigation: Lottery Commission, former director accused of defrauding Texans. Read it here.
Read “Lawmakers Seek to Repeal Lottery and Sports Betting in Vermont” at this link.
“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
The members of Stop Predatory Gambling sent the letter below to leaders in all states with lotteries calling on them to shut down all lottery gambling games for 30 days
DOWNLOAD our report on state lotteries: “Living in Truth: Lotteries Worsen Opportunity, Reduce Mobility Out of Poverty and Deepen Budget Problems” – A Briefing on State Lotteries by Stop Predatory
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
They max-out credit cards, drain their savings and checking accounts, seek payday loans, borrow money from relatives and friends, steal from employers and write bad checks. On rare occasions, they
