Sentences with phrase «families scraping by»

the veteran teacher asks his students, most of whom come from families scraping by on below - poverty - level incomes.

Growing up, Lydia Perez said, the family scraped by, qualifying for welfare and other social programs.

The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.

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I see a family who has scraped by all these years, taking two steps forward, now finding themselves three steps back.

Her father couldn't get money to the family, so Timiras scraped by on lire that she earned by translating scientific articles from French and English into Italian.

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With the aid of a streetwise old friend, she enables the family to scrape by.

The Jackson family may technically be able to come and go as they please, but in living on McAllen farm as sharecroppers who barely make enough money to scrape by, the prospects of freedom don't seem as potent as they could be.

Lady Bird is «from the wrong side of the tracks», which means that unlike the rich kids at her Catholic school, her family is scraping by on mum's nurse's salary.

Shoplifters (review here) is the story of a family, both blood and cobbled together, who scrape by with multiple jobs and supplement their survival with minor thievery that threaten to tear their family apart.

It's dark days for the Holm family, not just because they're scraping by, but because they're a house divided.

Take the two main female characters in Mudbound, which writer - director Dee Rees adapted from a screenplay by Virgil Williams (based on Hillary Jordan's book) to be a story of two families, one white and one black, scraping by on a Mississippi farm.

But she knows by the time she reaches her last year of primary school she will need to convince her father, who is ill and unable to work, to scrape together enough of the family budget to buy her two hard cover exercise books to take notes with.

The black partriarch of this particular family, River, maintains his integrity and scrapes by with gardening and raising pigs and goats.

But while some families go hungry, others will manage to scrape by, and some may even benefit from the crisis.

In case you didn't know, Facebook owns Instagram and your family photos might be easily scraped by data miners, too.