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Online sports betting is leading some young Americans into massive amounts of debt.
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Consumer bankruptcy attorneys say they’ve seen a surge of young clients with gambling-related debt.
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“They’re betting hundreds of dollars per hour, and not really knowing it,” one attorney said.
The online sports betting boom is pushing some Gen Z and young millennial gamblers into bankruptcy.
Consumer bankruptcy attorneys told Business Insider that over the past year or so, they’ve seen a surge of young clients — mostly men in their 20s and 30s — running into financial trouble largely due to online gambling.
In many cases, those clients have racked up tens of thousands of dollars in