Salinas» experience is not unique: Early educators across the country struggle to make
ends meet on dismal wages and limited benefits.
But if you are a retiree trying to make
ends meet on a fixed income, a rate like this might seem too high.
If you pay $ 100 a month for a 20 - year term life insurance policy, you're only paying around $ 24,000 — hard for the insurer to make
ends meet on a $ 250,000 or $ 500,000 policy.
It is either they are not sure if they are eligible for the said benefit or not, or they did not know at all, so they had to end up making
ends meet on their own with the help of their loved ones.
If your student won't be able to make
ends meet on his or her savings and income, some consumer debt may be necessary for basic living expenses.
The 36 - year - old Chicago prosecutor, a single mother seven years out of law school, moonlights as a bartender to make
ends meet on her $ 59,000 annual salary.
I had seen artists bravely sharing space and artists bravely making
ends meet on their own.
Because damn, this is one music composer who needs to be working on more video games, not struggling to make
ends meet on the internet.
But if you're already making
ends meet on your current salary, put any extra you get from a raise into your retirement account rather than your bank account.
I was so worried about making
ends meet on my own, in some part of my mind, I thought to myself that if I had to I could eventually sell what I needed for $.
He believes it would be even tougher now to make
ends meet on one salary today.
That didn't seem like a lot of money to make
ends meet on for the rest of his life, but so far he's not only supporting himself, but a growing family as well.
And since he and Jennifer are barely making
ends meet on his current salary, a layoff could be devastating.
Whatever the reason, you are now forced to make
ends meet on a reduced income.
There's the stress of making
ends meet on a fixed budget.
The Johnsons had been unable to make
ends meet on their combined full salaries and now their income had been cut by $ 1,500 a month.
If you're close to retirement, the most important thing in the final few years as you coast into retirement is to ensure that you have your bills as low as possible so you can make
ends meet on your already existing retirement savings.
They view the digital revolution with fear, have no idea at all how to expand or market their own brand, and are struggling to make
ends meet on near non-existent royalties.
Fanboy / girl scanlators are a dime a dozen and most full - time pro translators won't touch manga, let alone anything literary, because it's kind of hard to make
ends meet on a minuscule percentage of net profits paid up to a year after completion.
The mother of two - confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé - is forced to maintain a stable family life while making
ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar.
I would estimate that the average annual income for self - published authors is slightly lower now and, having seen a number of authors quit over the last couple of years in order to get full time jobs because of financial problems, it hasn't gotten any easier to make
ends meet on just book royalties.
The schools vary widely in funding levels and other resources, from those that can barely make
ends meet on per - pupil allotments that are lower than other high schools in the area to a few schools that amass large budgets from multiple sources and boast extraordinary technology and staffing.
«The cost of living is high and so it can be incredibly tough for young people trying to make
ends meet on their own for the first time, so I am one of those parents that help out wherever I can.
A young father struggling to make
ends meet on a Depression - era salary can't afford to buy his 5 - year - old daughter what she's expecting Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas.
A blue chip cast is wasted in the painfully unfunny ensemble comedy Niagara Motel, about a gaggle of self - absorbed nitwits struggling to make
ends meet on the Canadian side of the tourist mecca.
One in five working people is struggling to make
ends meet on low pay.
By Corey Johnson A contributor to WestView in his seventies offered he could not live in the West Village if it were not for his rent - controlled apartment — but even so, he was still having trouble making
ends meet on a fixed - income.
Making
ends meet on one income?
We were struggling to make
ends meet on an income that was more than $ 1200 / month above that level so I don't know how somebody who did qualify could think they can properly raise multiple children.
We were actually making
ends meet on not much per hour.
Barely making
ends meet on a fixed income and facing a rent increase he didn't think he could afford, Terry Vaughn remembered the day he heard about new affordable housing coming to North Park.
Or the uniformity in the salary of Cuba's citizens: Sure, it seems egalitarian, but it's hard to make
ends meet on the equivalent of $ 20 a month, even if you have the fortitude to wait in long lines for rations of food staples.
If you're struggling to make
ends meet on what you're currently making, there are definitely some ways to supplement your income.
Most important,
end the meeting on time — don't let it go on longer than necessary.
We want to
end meetings on a positive note and leave each other with a new idea or two to try.
I wasn't making
end meet on a low - income job and all my credit card payments were adding up to more than I was getting paid.
Start and
end meetings on time and include only the relevant people in meetings.
«It really
ends meetings on a high note.»
Not exact matches
Well, the recruits who won America's earlier wars had to make
ends meet with much, much less to draw
on.
BEIJING, April 24 - China failed to get India's support for its ambitious Belt and Road infrastructure project at the
end of a foreign ministers»
meeting of a major security bloc
on Tuesday, ahead of an ice - breaking trip to China this week by India's prime minister.
Tesla has acknowledged problems with production of batteries, but said it is still
on track to
meet its target of 2,500 Model 3s per week by the
end of March, and 5,000 Model 3s per week by the
end of the second quarter.
Most people agree that today's $ 11.40 an hour minimum wage in Ontario is too low to make
ends meet, unless you can depend
on others» incomes.
The couple, who
met on season 21 of «The Bachelor,» announced in August that they were
ending their engagement after about nine months.
He often
meets executives who go from 7 a.m. breakfast
meetings to late - night dinners, for days
on end.
Not only did he help us lay out a plan (which allowed us to
meet year -
end tax obligations), he pointed out several other items
on our return where we had been missing out
on an opportunity to save.
These
meetings end up being more focused, the startups can be properly evaluated against business needs, and when alignment is found, there is business support
on the enterprise side to help push along the proper testing and contract signing when the startup successfully addresses the need.
In order to
meet payroll for her 52 employees and eke out a profit that she admits is
on the low
end for the industry, Antonetti says she budgets no more than $ 60,000 a year for advertising.
«There was G7 unity
on opposing Russia's malign behavior,» the senior State Department official, speaking
on condition of anonymity, told reporters at the
end of the first day of
meetings in Toronto.
One government official says that top leaders
met last spring to consider the worst possible scenarios and concluded they should build new alliances with China, Persian Gulf states, and others, and begin creating their own products in order to
end their dependence
on the West.
«I tend to take
on more than I can accomplish in a normal work day and
end up anxious about
meeting deadlines,» he says.