‘I’ll pay soccer before I pay a bill’: How the cost of youth soccer blew out of control and why some families pay it anyway

Meliesha Johnson saw the Instagram message first. The single mom, a teacher who lives north of Atlanta, monitors her 15-year-old daughter’s social media accounts. She had always wondered how other girls her daughter’s age ended up at various invite-only soccer camps around the country, and there it...

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