New Research: Cost Is A Huge Obstacle To Playing Sports -- We Have A Solution

Source: PHIT America

SILVER SPRING, MD – October 19, 2016 – Millions of U.S. children are not playing middle and high school sports because their parents say they can’t afford it.  Based on the results of a recent study by C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health, nearly 30 percent of parents making less than $60,000 a year indicated that they cannot afford to enroll their child or children in a sport or after-school club activity.  For parents with an annual household income of more than $60,000, roughly 12 percent of parents said that they could not enroll their child or children in a sport or after-school club activity for financial reasons.

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