State Bans on Sports Betting Aren't Helping Anybody
Last week, Georgia's state legislature declined once more to take up the legalization of sports betting as a ballot referendum in 2025. Georgians will now have to wait until 2026 for the measure to be reconsidered, despite polling from the University of Georgia showing that 63% of voters would have backed legalization. Across the country, 39 states have legalized the practice and nine holdouts remain, two of which include the population behemoths of Texas and California, where either referendum or the legislative cold shoulder has shut out legal sports betting.