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Youth Sports Now Costs Parents Up to $25k a Year
A sharp look at how youth sports became a $40 billion industry pricing out ordinary families. Not an AI piece, but a clear read on how private capital reshapes a market that used to be a childhood pastime. Worth it if you care about where consolidation goes when it meets kids and weekends.
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NEW: Youth sports is now costing parents as much as $25,000 a year.
Private equity and corporations are turning a childhood pastime into something only the wealthy can afford.
Youth sports has become a $40 billion industry, and the steep costs are crushing American families. https://t.co/4DrEINQZZg