“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” – More Perfect Union

Producer: Jake Cimperman

Editor: Ben Johnson

Videographers: Evan Carter, Rachael Hastings Adair, Nick Lockerman

Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya

Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens

More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom whose mission is to build power for working people. Here’s what that means: We report on the real struggles and challenges of the working class from a working-class perspective. We attempt to connect those problems to potential solutions. We report on the abuses and wrongdoing of corporate power. And we seek to hold accountable the ultra-rich who have too much power over America’s political and economic systems.