Bill O'Reilly here Friday, January 7, 2022.

You are listening to the O'Reilly update here's what's happening this week in America.

The country's biggest meat producers raise prices.

Americans take on more debt than ever before.

Most parents say remote learning is hurting their kids.

Weather experts rank the snowiest cities in the USA.

So ahead, listeners to the update sound off.

But first, Tyson Foods and other meat suppliers, hiking prices heading into the new year.

The nation's biggest producers, charging 12% more for poultry, chicken turkey, 20% more

for beef, 25% for pork.

Farmers blaming increased costs on continued labor shortages.

Most meat packing facilities operating at 50% capacity because of COVID and people don't

want to work.

There are now 10 million vacant positions in the USA.

Again, COVID largely to blame, but there's laziness out there.

Americans now carrying more debt than at any other time in our history.

As of December, households owe $15 trillion to lenders.

This culprits credit card student loans, home mortgages, inflation, also hurting borrowers,

the consumer price index rising at the highest level in 40 years.

All this borrowing, sending the country's credit score down to levels not seen since the

great recession of 2008.

This is a warning to be sure.

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