NOTES ABOUT GAMBLING ISSUES

After reaching nearly $6.3 billion (adjusted to 2016/17 dollars) in 2000/01, legal gambling losses declined slightly to $5.9 billion in 2016/17. Running counter to this trend, sports betting losses have risen substantially since the turn of the century, though it still accounted for just 5.5% of all legal gambling losses by 2016/17. ................
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