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The Arkansas Lottery is rolling out new scratch-off tickets this month — including one that sells for $20 per ticket. Instant ticket sales make up most of the Arkansas Lottery’s income. However, scratch-off tickets are controversial because they are thought to be more likely to contribute to problem gambling and gambling addiction.
A 2015 study in Canada found a link between problem gambling and instant lottery tickets, writing, “It is possible that problem gamblers are more attracted to ...
On July 28, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks blocked two sections of Act 372 of 2023, a good law that generally prohibits giving or sending a child harmful material that contains nudity or sexual activity. The law also eliminates exemptions for libraries and schools in the state’s obscenity statute, and it clarifies how library patrons can work to remove objectionable material from a...