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Why Youth Sports in America Are in Decline

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Anti-Competitive Environment of Youth Sports

Youth sports is so competitive these days, but I look at it from the lens of an economist. If you're structurally pushing aside kids starting in first and second and third grade because they don't have the money or they're late bloomers, you're denying a whole chunk of the population. So it's an anti-competitive environment. And it's an unfair anti- Competitive environment.

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