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Legal Gambling Age by State: How Old Do You Have to Be to Gamble?
Gambling Age Guide · Updated July 30, 2026 The short answer is 21 for casino slots and table games in most of the United States, and 18 for lotteries, bingo and horse racing. But there are real exceptions worth knowing about: Montana, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico let you on a casino floor at 18, and hundreds of tribal casinos in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Idaho and elsewhere do the same. This page sets out the minimum age for nine different kinds of gambling in all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
Virginia Came Closer to Online Casinos Than Any State in Years — Then Fumbled at the One-Yard Line
In two-plus decades around this industry I’ve seen bills die every way a bill can die: strangled in committee, vetoed at midnight, traded away for a highway appropriation. But Virginia’s 2026 iGaming collapse belongs in a museum, because it’s the rarest specimen of all — a bill that both chambers passed and that died anyway. The short version: the Virginia Senate passed its iGaming bill. The House of Delegates passed its own.
What are the policy lessons from ‘Bidenomics'? Reflections from senior practitioners
ABSTRACT This paper examines the economic policy pursued under the Biden administration. We conducted 15 semi-structured interviews with senior policymakers in the aftermath of the 2024 US election, and present their assessment of US economic policy and performance. We also reflect their lessons for other economies, such as the UK.
Scotland can be an innovation nation again
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Tackling the UK's regional economic inequality: Binding constraints and avenues for policy intervention
This paper analyzes binding constraints to productivity growth in the United Kingdom’s regions outside London and the greater South East. These analyses challenge a number of common arguments about the UK’s regional economic inequality problem.
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