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[Joe Flynn]

About a year ago, I was asked as a part of my job to do a little field research on the cost of extra-curricular activities on families. The purpose of this task was to determine whether or not the quasi-governmental entity I work for could fund underprivileged children's participation in youth activities to help level the playing field in areas of education and the obesity epidemic. If funding wasn't possible, then the project at the least would allow us to advocate and create position papers on why it is not only important, but necessary that all children have access to extra-curricular activities. What I came up with was not shocking to anyone who has been around youth activities for any length of time and in fact, much of the research was already done for me by author, Mark Hyman who wrote a book called, "The Most Expensive Game In Town: The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Families."

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