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What other government program causes this result…over and over and over again?
Below is the latest in an endless story of children being left in cars while their parents lose their money to government’s predatory gambling program. This time it happened at Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh- a casino owned by billionaire Neil… Read more
Problem Gambling Awareness Day 2011
Julie Hynes, one of the organizers of Oregon’s Problem Gambling Awareness Day, posted this video of our speech at the State House in Salem, Oregon on September 29th. Hynes joined with Ronda Hatefi to honor Ronda’s brother Bobby (who killed… Read more
“I would go to bed at night hoping the next day would be different … but it was never different.”
Sharon Oczkowski, a former bookkeeper at Eastern Star Home & Campus in Oriskany, New York, said in court Tuesday that the lure of gambling at the Turning Stone Resort Casino was too much for her, and she spent more than… Read more
New film reveals how the failed policy of predatory gambling has impacted the black community
The Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law has produced a film examining gambling addiction and its effects on the African-American community in Philadelphia, weaving together interviews from community leaders, casino patrons and academics. Watch it below.
ESPN reveals high stakes wagering on youth football games in Florida
While our mission as an organization focuses specifically on the failed government policy of predatory gambling, the recent ESPN segment revealing the high stakes betting taking place on Florida Youth Football games is one of the most disturbing news items… Read more
New report out of West Virginia offers more damning evidence about how predatory gambling is a failed government policy
West Virginia recently released some jaw-dropping data about the impact of the failed government policy of predatory gambling in that state. Here are some key findings: 1) Since the Problem Gamblers Help Network of West Virginia began operating about 10… Read more
How is it possible the casino did not know this woman was an addict?
After watching the news report below from Good Morning America, how is it conceivable that anyone associated with the Seminole casino in Tampa did not know this woman was a gambling addict? It is impossible to believe that an individual… Read more
A black woman’s reflections on the failed government policy of predatory gambling
Sandy Adell, a Wisconsin college professor and author of Confessions of a Slot Machine Queen, recently posted the excellent column below. Check it out. From Sandy Adell’s blog: A Black Woman’s Reflections on Casino Gambling, April 2011 A few weeks… Read more
Make the casinos return the stolen money
The government program of predatory gambling can now add several more names to its continually expanding list of victims. A longtime bookkeeper for a small Chicago machinery company has been charged with embezzling more than $1.5 million from the business… Read more
Predatory Gambling Victim Needs Our Help Today
SPG Foundation Executive Director Les Bernal just returned from visiting Arelia Taveras in a New York jail. Arelia was once a highly-successful attorney who became a gambling addict – in the language of the casinos she was “played to extinction” –… Read more
Indiana Supreme Court Exempts Casinos from State Common Law
Yesterday the Indiana Supreme Court ruled against a woman who said a riverboat preyed on her gambling addiction. Jenny Kephart of Nashville, Tenn., filed a lawsuit against Caesars Indiana in 2007 after the Ohio River casino near Louisville, Ky., sued… Read more
The Expendable Children
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a powerful, must-read editorial about the amount of children being found left in cars at Philadelphia area casinos. These kids are simply the cost of doing business for the government program of predatory gambling.
An avoidable tragedy in New Mexico
A heart-wrenching story from The Albuquerque Journal: The countdown to Kathy Borrego’s judgment day had already begun. In less than 55 hours, she would be standing in front of state District Judge Stephen Pfeffer to find out her punishment for… Read more
Nothing sensible about the government program of predatory gambling
A hospital nurse, curious about what tipped patients into suicidal crisis, prompted a screening program in an Australian hospital’s emergency department. The program’s findings are depressingly stark: problem gamblers made up almost one in five of the 898 suicidal patients… Read more