Sentences with phrase «put food on the table at»

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And he needed work: «My wife at the time was pregnant and I needed to put food on the table.»

Unless the residents are working for the band office or a government - run social service, they're almost certainly unemployed — and more often than not, addicted to prescription painkillers at the expense of putting food on the table for their families.

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Those who are disabled should be given the dignity of enough public assistance that they can at least put a decent roof over their heads and put food on their tables.

The Salvation Army's director for community services, Tony Daniels said: «Staff and volunteers at our churches and social centres across the UK have seen growing numbers of individuals and families on low incomes who are struggling to put food on the table or keep a roof over their heads.

My parents worked extremely hard to be able to put food on the table, sometimes holding down two jobs at a time.

According to her, the legal trouble all centers around her trying to stay in the United States: «The only thing that I've done is use false documents to put food on the table of my family,» Vizguerra told Inside Edition through a translator at the church.

Unlike Ozil and many others the DCM meant I could n`t pay the rent and putting food on the table for the kids was the stuff heart attacks were made of (and I had them too) so I «m not at all concerned with Mr Ozil «s «off pitch «problems.

A day at the park can involve setting up «home base» by putting the basket of food and a cooler with drinks on the picnic table, spreading out lawn chairs or blankets, and making sure entertainment is easily accessible.

So I teach table manners (no helping, keeping hands on tray) with the oatmeal, and then I put all the food we're eating on her tray and let her go at it.

Don't put more than a few pieces of food on the highchair tray or table at once, so baby won't get overwhelmed (or have as much to throw!)

She would throw food on the floor and would not be allowed to get down from high chair until everyone at the dinner table was finished eating and then when it was time to get down, mom would put trash can beside high chair and make her clean up the food and then give her a rag to wipe the floor up and then have her go wash her hands.

I do not think any child deserve to have a fork shoved into their hand, be yelled at to eat, physically pushed into putting food on their fork and then forced to leave the table for gagging.

At 9 a.m., Walmart workers, clergy, and supporters fast outside the estate of Alice Walton, whose family owns half of Walmart, as part of a national day of action to «demonstrate the hunger crisis for Walmart workers and their families that are struggling to put food on the table this holiday season,» and protest for a $ 15 - an - hour minim wage, 515 Park Ave., Manhattan.

Now most of those struggling middle class owners are going to struggle even more to put food on the table for a hungry family, pay an urgent bill to a utility so that family has electric so teenagers who live at home with mom and dad can get more money to go to the movies or buy weed with.

In a chat with newsmen in Kano, Mairiga stated that it is not an exaggeration that members of many households in the country proceed to bed, without at least one square meal, while some others flee their homes, following their inability to put food on the table of their loved ones.

«Imagine working two or three jobs just to put food on the table, having no transportation other than buses to get to those jobs and no security that their job or the wages agreed upon will be available tomorrow,» says Jeanette Zoeckler, a public health project manager at OHCC.

This means putting your food on a plate, sitting at a table (versus on - the - go), chewing 20 - 25X and putting your fork down in between bites.

Fair trade fashion tells the story of a man or a woman who has been given an opportunity and a chance at a dignified job that they can support a family with, put kids in school with, put food on the table with, and save for the future with.

But at the same time, one in eight Americans struggles to put enough food on the table Chart - topper Ed Sheeran finally made his Game of Thrones cameo in the show's season seven premiere on Sunday night after months of hints about what the

But at the same time, one in eight Americans struggles to put enough food on the table

At the other end of the spectrum, teachers continue to report children coming to school hungry and families coping on the tightest food budgets say they put calories before nutrition just to get food on the table.»

«Parents of children in poverty are working, trying to put food on the table,» said Edward Kliszus, the superintendent at Port Chester - Rye Union Free School District in Westchester County, where 61 percent of students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies.

«The act, of course, is to help consumers help our environment and stimulate auto sales at this time when they're lagging and so many families across this country depend on them for putting food on the table and keeping them employed,» Sutton said.

Sure, I can look at them and point and tell my friends how many books I wrote, but that doesn't put food on the table.

Many people continue to work at careers / jobs that are not fulfilling (or worse) because they have to put food on the table.

It used to be that back in the day before «dream jobs» were made popular by mainstream media that people used to get whatever job fit their education just so they could make a living, put food on the table and make sure the family was warm at night.

At the end of the day if you're swamped with unmanageable debt and struggling to put food on the table, that is the best time to file bankruptcy, eliminate it and get yourself a fresh start again.

I am a software developer and I am now trying to start a small business so that I can at least start bringing in an income to attempt to get out of my hole, or at least put food on the table.

And so at that time, people were also pretty poor, and they were worried about you know how are they going to put food on their tables, and this became a thing that people found as a sport and that they thought it was something that could be productive financially, unfortunately.

Consider that almost 25 percent of Torontonians live at or below the poverty line and you'll find that more than 400,000 pets in this city could be living in households where families may struggle to put food on their tables and in their pets» bowls.

Use the tables in the day - use areas for picnics, because picnics on a lake shore or the beach put food at «dingo level».

It used to be if somebody was out of work they could always hang out at the local fishing hole to put some food on the table.

But for the average person trying to put food on the table in spite of a busy life, induction is where it's at.

Then children over the age of 10 could pitch in at home to lessen the burden on overworked parents and help put good food on the table.

Pro bono work is all well and good, and arguably a moral imperative of those practising a generally privileged profession, but at the end of the day you have a responsibility to yourself and to your family to put food on the table and keep the lights on.

Your tip could mean the difference between a driver's ability to put food on the table or not, or at least allow him or her to work fewer hours that week.

I work long hours to put food on the table for our family while you stay at home all day!

The rate of uninsured children is at an all - time low, more students are starting the day with school breakfast through the federal school meals program, more households benefited from a financial boost through the earned income tax credit and more families participated in the NJ Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to help put food on the table.