Stop Predatory Gambling

10/29/2025

College athletes are the new victims of America’s gambling obsession. The NCAA’s growing problems show how betting destroys integrity and endangers players.

The NCAA has moved a step closer to allowing athletes and athletic department staff members to bet on professional sports.

10/27/2025

Global betting companies are using data, marketing, and addiction psychology to trap people in endless cycles of loss. This documentary exposes how gambling empires profit from human vulnerability, not entertainment.

Online bookmakers have kept millions in wagers placed with stolen money. This week on Four Corners reporter Steve Cannane reveals how financial advisers co...

10/25/2025

This Gambling Addiction Story Will Actually Blow Your Mind...

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10/24/2025

FanDuel and Amazon are turning basketball into another gambling billboard. Integrating betting odds into live NBA and WNBA games cheapens the sport and feeds addiction disguised as innovation.

Explore the new FanDuel Amazon integration, bringing live gambling odds to NBA games on Prime Video. Learn more about addiction risks.

10/23/2025

10/22/2025

Teens Are Using Their Bar Mitzvah Money to Gamble Online — With Help From Their Parents

A sacred rite of passage — the Bar Mitzvah — marks the moment a 13-year-old boy becomes responsible under Jewish law. Yet today, some of that sacred money is being funneled into gambling accounts. Parents are even signing their kids up using their own Social Security numbers and IDs. What was once a symbol of faith and maturity is now being twisted by a predatory gambling industry targeting children and destroying families.

“I just didn’t think anything about it. It was something that he and his friends were all doing,” one Manhattan dad said about helping his son set up an illegal betting account.

10/22/2025

A growing number of Americans agree that this kind of blatant exploitation and manipulation imposed on a corporate and systemic-wide basis upon millions of citizens is just morally unconscionable and shameful and we all have the responsibility to put a stop to it.

Learn how the NHL's agreements with Kalshi and Polymarket are reshaping prediction gambling in the sports industry.

10/22/2025

More Americans now recognize that legal sports betting is harming both society and the integrity of sports. What was sold as entertainment has become a nationwide problem of addiction, corruption, and exploitation.

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

10/21/2025

On October 16th, 2025, Les Bernal, National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling, stood before the Georgia House of Representatives and revealed how the state’s cruel gambling system preys on working families. He exposed how the Georgia Lottery targets low-income neighborhoods with $50 scratch tickets — while the minimum wage is still just $7.25 an hour.

Les spoke for families who’ve lost everything and called out the expansion of online sports betting for what it is: a system that profits from human loss.

Georgia deserves better. Watch, share, and stand with those fighting to end predatory gambling.

On October 16th, 2025, Les Bernal, National Director of Stop Predatory Gambling, delivered one of the most powerful testimonies ever heard on predatory gambl...

10/20/2025

This essay makes clear how predatory gambling has dangerously metastasized into our financial system and exemplifies how the public policy of states normalizing commercialized gambling has been an epic failure by every measure.

Smartphones are becoming casinos. Trump, whose son is invested in the industry, is only goosing the business.

10/18/2025

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10/17/2025

Gambling addiction experts across New York are raising alarms as more young people fall into the trap of sports betting.

Easy access through phones and apps has turned what seems like harmless entertainment into a growing crisis. College students and young adults are developing gambling addictions faster than ever, often without realizing it until they’ve lost control. Experts warn that gambling can destroy finances, relationships, and mental health — sometimes leading to hopelessness and even su***de.

This is not a game.

It’s a public health emergency that preys on the young and vulnerable.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — With football season now in full swing, problem gambling experts are sounding the alarm about the dangers associated with sports betting, especially among younger New Yorkers. College students, many of whom who have never been predisposed to gambling, are finding themselves ...