Shakedown at the Snack Counter: The Case for Street Pricing

Attending a baseball game with your kids or taking a flight to visit family is out of reach for millions of Americans. Between rising ticket prices and exorbitant concession costs, families are gouged left and right by billionaire team owners. Despite receiving billions in public funding, the giant corporations and investors behind stadium and airport concessions wield extraordinary – and growing – power to gouge families and consumers at every turn. Our policy brief proposes "street pricing" policies for publicly funded arenas to put money back into consumers' pockets.