Benched: The Crisis in American Youth Sports and Its Cost to Our Future

Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, House Committee on Education and Labor · December 17, 2025

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Opening statements and framing of the hearing

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The chair opened the subcommittee and framed the hearing as a response to falling youth-sports participation and its consequences. The chair argued reduced participation harms children’s development and public health, and cited Healthy People 2030’s 63% participation goal; he invited witnesses and yielded to the ranking member.

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A House Education and Labor subcommittee hearing examined declining youth-sports participation and how private-equity consolidation, rising costs and disinvestment in schools are limiting access for low- and middle-income children.

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