Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
The evidence is convincing: The betting industry is ruining lives.
By Charles Fain Lehman
Over the weekend, millions of Americans watched football. They cheered, they ate, and—more than ever—they gambled.
- The American Gaming Association expects $35 billion in bets to be placed on NFL games in 2024, about one-third more than last year’s total.
If you follow sports, gambling is everywhere.
- Ads for it are all over broadcasts;
- more than one in three Americans now betson sports, according to a Seton Hall poll. Before 2018, sports gambling was prohibited almost everywhere.
- Now it’s legal in 38 states and the District of Columbia, yielding $10 billion a year in revenue.
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