Hanover, MD – The casino gaming industry supports 350,000 small business jobs nationwide and nearly 3,000 of them are in Maryland, the American Gaming Association (AGA) announced today at Live! Casino & Hotel during the third stop on the American Gaming Small Business Jobs Tour. The tour stop was in conjunction with “Live! At 5,” […]
June 22, 2017 By Lorraine Mirabella Live Casino & Hotel in Hanover teamed up with the American Gaming Association Thursday to promote business opportunities for small, minority-owned firms and highlight the industry’s economic impact in Maryland. Association representatives are touring U.S. casinos to highlight gambling’s impact on local businesses. Events at the Hanover facility included […]
June 15, 2017 By Gus Bentley A powerful coalition to end the failed experiment of the prohibition on sports betting emerged this week, commanding the support of law enforcement officials, states’ rights advocates, policymakers and industry leaders. Launched Monday, the American Sports Betting Coalition is campaigning to end one of the most ineffective and counterproductive […]
June 13, 2017 By Kate Ackley The American Gaming Association is making a wager that a new coalition will convince Congress to repeal a 1992 law that bans most states from allowing sports betting. The association, which represents the casino industry, will launch the American Sports Betting Coalition on Monday with members that include law […]
June 13, 2017 By Jonathan D. Salant WASHINGTON — Casino industry officials on Monday launched a new campaign to legalize sports betting, something New Jersey has been trying to get for years. They’re behind the new American Sports Betting Coalition, which is trying to get Congress to repeal a 1992 law that allows such wagering in only four states: Nevada, Delaware, […]
Washington, DC – Riding a wave of unprecedented support for legalized sports betting, the American Sports Betting Coalition (ASBC) today launched a campaign to end the 25-year-old failing federal ban known as the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). PASPA prohibits sports betting outside Nevada. According to new research by Oxford Economics, legalizing sports […]
June 12, 2017 By Regina Garcia Cano LAS VEGAS (AP) – The casino industry’s largest lobbying group in the U.S. is ramping up its efforts to repeal a 25-year-old federal law that bans sports betting in most states. The American Gaming Association on Monday announced the creation of a coalition involving organizations of attorneys general […]
June 8, 2017 Geoff Freeman, president and CEO of the American Gaming Association, is coming out against a provision of President Donald Trump’s new budget proposal that would cut funding for Brand USA, a public-private partnership launched in 2011 to help promote the U.S. as a travel destination for foreign tourists. Trump’s budget would cut […]
Washington, DC – The U.S. casino gaming industry has joined the broader U.S. travel industry to oppose a provision in President Trump’s fiscal year 2018 budget proposal that would eliminate funding for Brand USA, 300-plus organizations announced through a letter to key Senate and House committees. Brand USA was created in 2010 to help address the post-9/11 decade […]
June 4, 2017 By Mark Gruetze When Carol Philp started a business in her basement in the mid-1990s, she had three young sons, experience running a small gift shop and confidence in her dream. “I never thought that it wouldn’t work,” she recalls about launching CPI Creative, which provides branded merchandise such as clothing, mugs […]