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| Good morning and happy Super Bowl weekend, y'all, Daily Money readers. Jayme Deerwester here with you, relieved that my Sunday attire has finally arrived. BTW, the game's not for two days and I'm kinda already biting my fingernails nervously like that Kermit the Frog gif. |
| Speaking of the Super Bowl, watch your inbox for a little Daily Money bonus later today. We've got a choose-your-own adventure playlist for you: one for for Cincinnati Bengals fans and another for Los Angeles Rams backers. Use them as weekend workout music or pre-game entertainment at your game-watch party. |
🗞 News you should know 🗞 |
| Adidas shocked the internet by posting a picture of 25 people's faceless bare breasts on Twitter to promote the company's new sports bra line. |
| The company believes "breasts in all shapes and sizes deserve support and comfort. Which is why our new sports bra range contains 43 styles, so everyone can find the right fit for them," Adidas said in the tweet on Wednesday. |
| The company tweeted that the volunteers for the picture "were amazing and brave" and the company followed all social media policies. They were able to post the uncensored picture on Twitter, their website and on a billboard. |
| As the tweet went viral, some users applauded the move, while others did not agree with the exposure of breasts on social media. |
| "As a father of two daughters that played sports this is way overdue. Thank you. A lot of girls give up sports because they can't find the right fit to stay comfortable," one user shared. |
| "@adidas u guys can market ur new sports bras or products without the nudity, this isn't how body positivity is promoted. For crying out loud Twitter is a public platform that's also accessible to a lot of underaged kids, a tweet like this can corrupt someone. Do better," another tweeted. |
🚨 More stories you shouldn't miss 🚨 |
| MOVING OUT. Many move south to Florida, Texas for new jobs, remote work. |
| TESLA RECALL. Nearly 579,000 vehicles affected by 'Boombox' issue. |
| DO YOU NEED A RENTAL CAR ABROAD? Here's how to decide. |
| LEAVING SPOTIFY OR APPLE MUSIC? Learn how to take playlists with you. |
| FOOD POISONING: THE WORST FUMBLE. Read these food-safety tips before you start cooking Sunday. |
💡 Daily insight 💡 |
| With inflation at a 40-year high, Americans are feeling the pinch in just about every facet of daily life. One place we're really feeling it: the grocery store. |
| There are myriad reasons for the higher grocery bills , including the same labor shortages, supply-chain bottlenecks and strong consumer demand that have driven up the cost of other goods and services. Toss in the wild cards plaguing the food industry: Extreme weather, particularly heat and drought that have curtailed crop yields. A surge in exports. COVID-19 outbreaks at meatpacking plants. Volatile consumer eating patterns amid the ups and downs of the health crisis. |
| Meanwhile, dire worker shortages, particularly at restaurants, have pushed up wages and the cost of dining out. |
| There are still fewer factory, warehouse and port workers as parents care for distance-learning children or stay home because of COVID-19 fears. Fuel costs have soared. Dozens of container ships have spent time stuck in the waters near the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, waiting to unload cargo. The cost to lease a shipping container for a delivery from China has increased nearly tenfold to $20,000. |
💵 2022: Most stressful tax season? 💵 |
| Taxpayers, including small business owners, often want to know what has what's happened to their refund and they can't find easy answers. During the past two years of the pandemic, tax experts said, many even are demanding to know what happened to their last year's return, which the IRS has not processed. |
| Late Wednesday afternoon, the IRS announced that it would temporarily suspend more than a dozen additional automated notices, including balance due notices and unfiled tax return notices. The IRS also is temporarily halting the mailing of automated collection notices normally issued when a taxpayer owes additional tax, and the IRS has no record of a taxpayer filing a tax return. |
| The IRS will continue to assess its backlog inventory of prior year returns to determine when to resume sending the notices. But it warned that some taxpayers and tax professionals may still receive these notices during the next few weeks. "Generally, there is no need to call or respond to the notice as the IRS continues to process prior year tax returns as quickly as possible," the agency said. |
🎶 Mood music 🎶 |
| Both the Bengals and the Rams got to the Super Bowl by refusing to give up after the Chiefs and 49ers racked up substantial leads in the conference title games. So in both teams' honor, I'm going with Nelly's "Heart of a Champion": "I'mma keep the same grin whether I lose or win. Up, or down ten, I'mma fight to the end." |
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