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Pramila Jayapal: “The average cost of a kid's primary sport is more than…”

Featuring: Pramila Jayapal, Democratic | U.S. House Washington, District 7

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… out of soccer, to take the fun out of tennis, basketball, and to squeeze every dollar possible out of parents across the country. Between registration fees, tournament fees, equipment, travel, The average cost of a kid's primary sport is more than $1,000 a year. And that's up, as you've heard, up to 46% since pre pandemic levels. And as the price of food and rent, gas, electricity, literally everything my constituents are talking to me about is going up, the sticker price simply means that there's going … (17:34–17:45)

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