Grants Awarded to Fight Under-Aged Gambling As reported by the Kansas City Star: "Three Missouri nonprofits this year will share $160,000 in grants from the Kansas City Port Authority to combat under-aged gambling. "...The largest grant, $93,938, goes to the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, to conduct research on the scope of the youth gambling problem in Missouri. "Renee Cunningham-Williams, a visiting associate professor, said researchers will interview hundreds of young people ages 14 through 25 to establish prevalence rates for youthful gambling addiction and to learn more about how, why and at what age they started gambling..." |