Sentences with phrase «ends meet for their family»

Resigned my post 2 months ago and am trying to find a way to make ends meet for my family of 4.

I don't understand why $ 150 a week wouldn't make ends meet for a family of five if they shopped sensibly and cooked from scratch.

«People are hurting in Queens and the current minimum wage simply isn't enough to make ends meet for families here,» Ulrich said.

They are able to have their own business and be a stay at home mom while making ends meet for their family.

In this anguished yet mordantly funny film, Fassbinder charts the decline of a self - destructive former policeman and war veteran struggling to make ends meet for his family by working as a fruit vendor.

A bi-weekly or even weekly visit from a home visitor isn't enough to address deeper problems, like depression, neighborhood safety and the stress of juggling work and childrearing, and trying to make ends meet for a family on poverty wages.

While it involved role - playing it gave participants a glimpse into the actual experience in the social welfare system of human beings struggling to make ends meet for their families.

Having 3 - 6 months» worth of savings in your emergency fund means that you can focus on finding another job without worrying about how you'll make ends meet for your family.

He said Feis often worked two or three jobs to make ends meet for his family, and he loved his truck.

Sorry if that «frustrates» you, but putting these videos together takes several hours (in the store and in Adobe Premiere) and I've got ta make ends meet for my family... whom I'm away from while I'm working on these.

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«I grew up poor, and I remember when it was very difficult for my parents to make ends meet,» says Huang, whose family immigrated to the United States from Taiwan when he was one year old.

The study found the living wage for Metro Vancouver increased $ 0.33 over last year to $ 19.14 — a jump mediated by the introduction of the U-Pass, which has helped cut bus transportation costs for some families struggling to make ends meet.

This has left my family struggling to make ends meet or without the necessary support as we care for our newborn.»

It's unfair for my family and anyone with a disability to be left wondering how they will make ends meet when we take time off after having a baby,» said Alford.

It wouldn't have been too expensive for most families, but on a policeman's salary, it was sometimes difficult to make ends meet.

The timing could not be more perfect as some of our families our struggling to make ends meet and this money added to our tuition aid assistance program will help make it easier for a number of those families to continue their education at Assumption.

Many farming families are now unable to pay for hired help, so that young and old farming men and women are putting in 16 hour days and still do not make ends meet.

So before you try to sell the ridiculous notion that our manager's hands are tied by financial constraints or that we were burned by the ineptitude of the Financial Fair Play pie - in - the - sky mandate, or that we are just a humble, family - oriented club that is resigned to counting our pennies and cutting corners to make ends meet, I implore you to take your blinkers off just for a brief moment and honestly examine the harsh realities currently facing our club.

After months of collaborating, soliciting opinions from Christopherus homeschoolers and receiving sage advice and planning material from Barbara Benson, our Homeschool Consultant, Amy has developed an artistically designed planning tool that is open ended enough to be useful for many different families, from many parts of the world, who are creating a way of homeschooling that meets their needs.

«For families who can't quite make ends meet when school is out, there is a need.

In the end, the advice that applies to the pre-adoption waiting period applies to the post-adoption adjustment: Learn everything you can about what's required, what's likely, and what's possible; get support through groups like FRUA, other adoptive families in your community, or families you meet through your adoption agency; and be willing to ask for and accept help.Good luck!

As professionals in lactation, we are both working toward the same end of supporting new mothers, meeting them where they need us and providing them with resources and choices so that she can best decide what is best for her and her family.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE Board of Commissioners of the Oak Brook Park District, DuPage and Cook Counties, Illinois, will conduct a public hearing regarding the proposed budget and appropriations ordinance for the fiscal year commencing May 1, 2018 and ending April 30, 2019, at the Oak Brook Park District, Family Recreation Center, 1450 Forest Gate Road, Oak Brook, Illinois, Monday, April 16, 2018, at 6:30 PM, during the Regular Meeting of the Board of Commissioners, at which time the proposed Budget and Appropriation Ordinance will be adopted.

«Summer is such a critical time for families struggling to make ends meet - it can take a lot to feed a home full of hungry kids every day.

Denver Health's Newborns in Need program comes to the rescue for expecting families who are struggling to make ends meet.

We also provide their families, who are struggling to make ends meet, but have incomes too high to qualify for federal and state subsidies, with a supportive safety net from welfare and the opportunity to succeed.

«The government must make the right choices for the future if it is to meet its pledges on ending child poverty, fair taxes and a welfare system that supports families properly.

Too many working families have had to live paycheck - to - paycheck for too long, struggling to make ends meet.»

«I commend Mayor de Blasio for putting forth a comprehensive plan to create more affordable housing at a time when so many New York families still struggle to make ends meet and afford to stay here.

«If you have been a person of color and you stood out on the sidewalk and a taxi passed you by, if you are someone that is trying to figure out how to make ends meet from our communities, and «I just need a job to make sure I have an opportunity for my family,» if I'm just trying to figure out how to have more justice in my communities, that's why you stand on the side of Uber,» he said.

The cost of living continues to rise, making it harder for working families to make ends meet.

When there are families that are struggling to make ends meet, it's actually more costly to send a child to daycare than it is to send them for a higher education at a SUNY institution and that's just not right.»

This project is providing not just 134 units of affordable housing, but high - quality, energy efficient homes for New Yorkers at a range of income levels, from very low - income families to those middle income families who increasingly struggle to make ends meet.

This win is a mandate for protecting and building affordable housing and making sure working families can make ends meet.

«Five families» of Rockland politics hold secret meeting behind cemetery at the offices of the Working Families Party; unlikely personalities seek to save Ed Lettre's leadership of the Conservative Party (EDITOR»S NOTE POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2012 — PLEASE SEE ADDENDUM AT END OF STORY) BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Desperate times call for half - baked mfamilies» of Rockland politics hold secret meeting behind cemetery at the offices of the Working Families Party; unlikely personalities seek to save Ed Lettre's leadership of the Conservative Party (EDITOR»S NOTE POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2012 — PLEASE SEE ADDENDUM AT END OF STORY) BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Desperate times call for half - baked mFamilies Party; unlikely personalities seek to save Ed Lettre's leadership of the Conservative Party (EDITOR»S NOTE POSTED NOVEMBER 26, 2012 — PLEASE SEE ADDENDUM AT END OF STORY) BY DYLAN SKRILOFF Desperate times call for half - baked measures!

«For too long, middle - class families have been living paycheck - to - paycheck, and have struggled to make ends meet.

For Nan Doyle of Fort Greene, the Web site has helped her family make ends meet after her husband lost his job.

The Connecticut Working Families Party announced Thursday it had endorsed one candidate for the election: Shonta» Browdy, 41, a Hartford parent advocate who has been a fixture at city school board meetings for years and spoke out against the prospect of school closures in the North End.

any person using the New York state supplemental nutritional assistance program or New York state special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children as full or partial payment,» as a mechanism to prevent the measure from hurting low - income families struggling to make ends meet.

Espaillat said that winning in Congress means that he will be able to provide «some level of relief for neighborhood and families that are facing eviction or having a tough time making ends meet,» such as the child care tax credit increase proposal he announced earlier this year, which he said will provide relief for working families.

Councilman Brad Lander, the prime sponsor of the bill, has touted a provision mandating free bags, for «any person using the New York state supplemental nutritional assistance program or New York state special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children as full or partial payment,» as a mechanism to prevent the measure from hurting low - income families struggling to make ends meet.

BROOKLYN — Former NYPD officer Peter Liang met with the domestic partner of Akai Gurley, the man he was convicted of killing, Thursday morning and said he was sorry for her loss before the two ended the meeting with a handshake, according to the Gurley family's lawyer.

Today it's getting harder and harder for families in Western New York to make ends meet because of unfair labor practices and Washington's failed trade policies.

The new analysis sheds light on how Airbnb listings, particularly in neighborhoods where they are most heavily concentrated, exacerbate New York City's affordability challenges and make it harder for working - and middle - class families to make ends meet... Airbnb listings were heavily concentrated in parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn and had a greater impact on these neighborhoods.

«They're not feeding a family — they're trying to put money away to go to school, to take a vacation, to have fun, to buy stuff — clothes, shoes, whatever it may be — so to raise the minimum wage for them, to me, is a different scenario than raising the minimum wage for a family — a mother and father that have kids to support, that are just trying to make ends meet,» said Stallmer.

While these prices are an improvement from the record - setting prices we saw earlier in the year, they are still far too high for families and small businesses struggling to make ends meet.

Although the dream eventually ends with the couple meeting exchanging weak smiles and going for a drive in the Kia (this is family television after all), the peak moments are clearly the fantasies.

During the crash I found it extremely stressful to make ends meet and provide for my family.

When his older brothers and father are taken to jail, Pio is forced to grow up fast, filling the role of breadwinner for a family struggling to make ends meet.

Kinnear plays Burpo, a small - town businessman, volunteer firefighter and pastor struggling to make ends meet in a tough year for his family.