St. Louis, MO – The casino gaming industry supports 350,000 small business jobs nationwide and nearly 4,500 of them are in Missouri, the American Gaming Association (AGA) announced today at Regents Maintenance Supply, a janitorial supplier and equipment provider for regional casinos. Today’s event, part of the AGA’s American Gaming Small Business Jobs Tour, highlights […]
June 1, 2017 By John Brennan The audience at last week’s East Coast Gaming Conference in Atlantic City surely knew it would get a pep talk from American Gaming Association president Geoff Freeman. But they may not have expected the level of intensity. For instance, Freeman declared 2016 to be “the most monumental year in gaming […]
Washington, DC – American Gaming Association (AGA) President and CEO Geoff Freeman today addressed the East Coast Gaming Congress & NextGen Gaming Forum to highlight the industry’s continued unification as well as growth opportunities through regulatory reform and sports betting. Read an excerpt of Freeman’s remarks below and find his full speech here. We see […]
Washington, DC — American Gaming Association Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Sara Slane released the following statement following the Solicitor General’s recommendation to the Supreme Court not to hear New Jersey’s case to overturn the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA): “The 25-year-old ban on sports betting is fueling a thriving $150 billion […]
May 18, 2017 Visitor attendance for this year’s edition of Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia was the highest ever in the 11-year history of the event, according to preliminary figures supplied to GGRAsia by one of the event co-organisers. G2E Asia is an annual casino industry trade show and conference held in Macau. This year’s […]
May 9, 2017 By Dustin Gouker A majority of Americans are in favor of allowing states to decide whether to legalize sports betting, with avid sports fans even more likely to support such a move. That’s according to a survey commissioned by the American Gaming Association, the casino group pushing for regulation of sports wagering around the US. Perhaps the most shocking […]
Las Vegas, NV –The American Gaming Association’s Board of Directors this week ratified a new set of policy principles outlining the industry’s approach to legalized sports betting. The principles are intended to create clear guideposts as discussions with key policymakers, allies and interested parties become more granular. AGA’s stated goal is the modernization of the […]
Washington, D.C. – American Gaming Association (AGA) President and CEO Geoff Freeman sent a letter today to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on the Environment and the Economy which is holding a hearing on the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017, which would revive Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository: “Yucca Mountain is located […]
April 26, 2017 By Thomas Barrabi As top sports officials and the American public soften their decades-long opposition to legal sports betting, the American Gaming Association, one of the leading advocates for a regulated marketplace for wagers, says that an end to the federal ban on the popular pastime is near. Both the NHL […]
April 26, 2017 By William J. Ford Eastern Food Services of Laurel distributes various products to several clients, including Prince George’s County Public Schools. The bottled water and food service company, founded more than 30 years ago, had to add 20 additional employees when it signed a contract to partner with MGM National Harbor casino […]