Inflation and supply chain problems are making an expensive Thanksgiving this year, notes Grumpy Editor.
Thanksgiving dinner's average cost for 10 people is $53, estimates the American Farm Bureau.
It cites a 16-pound turkey costs about $24 --- almost $5 more than the average cost a year ago.
Also contributing to a higher outlay for Thanksgiving, adds the Farm Bureau, is high global demand for food, particularly meat.
It's the priciest meal in the survey's 36 years and up 14 percent from about $47 last year.
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UNIVERSITY LECTURERS STRIKE AVERTED. A massive two-day strike by University of California lecturers that threatened widespread class cancellations is averted after the union and university reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
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