Minnesota meat raffles — a decades-long charitable fundraising tradition — are being squeezed by surging meat prices while the state's prize cap has stayed frozen at $70 for nearly 40 years. The mismatch between inflation and fixed limits is forcing charities that depend on raffles to absorb rising costs, making the tradition increasingly unsustainable. Republican and Democratic legislators have found rare common ground supporting a bill to raise the prize limit, showing this is one issue where Minnesota's political divide narrows.