More importantly, adult membership has been steadily dropping for many years. It would be illogical to increase adult dues when more and more adults are unwilling to pay the dues we are already charging them. Scholastic dues are another matter. There is a strong and active lobby in chess ...
Try doing an AltaVista search on the United States Chess Federation. You will find listed more than 50 web pages. Now, try hitting a few of those pages. You will find that all or almost all of them have gone dead. "No such URL address found", it will say, Regarding the "news" ...