Sentences with phrase «struggle meeting their family»

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Frequent moves, gaps in resumes, child - care struggles, and a lack of support services forces spouses to remain unemployed and families struggling to make ends meet.

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.

«With stagnant job growth numbers this past year and a significant decrease in family - supporting jobs, giving up on her jobs plan is a sign the premier has given up on middle class families who are struggling to make ends meet.»

«Families in B.C. are struggling to make ends meet, and yet the Liberal government is rolling out one fee increase after another while making reckless cuts to services British Columbians depend on.»

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

In Liao Yiwu's God is Red, which recounts the struggles of the Chinese Christians in the Maoist and post-Maoist years, the pastor's son recalls how, because of their faith, his family was beaten, bound, and spit upon during public condemnation meetings.

They are finding social support services to meet the needs of families who are struggling with poverty.

The person on income support who is struggling to make ends meet can please and honour God with their giving just as much as the financially comfortable middle - class family.

That «preacher» OSteen can take his entire family to Morocco on a lark confirms it is long past time to demand these crystal cathedrals pay their property taxes and fees and meet commercial zoning requirements instead of destroying neighborhoods with traffic and height violations while foisting their infrastructure burden off on struggling individual homeowners.

Atheists's need to refocus their energy on helping those that survived throw the money they are wasting on suing over an international symbol maybe they should donate that money to those families still struggling to cover medical costs or make ends meet because they lost not only a loved one but a source of income.

I've seen people struggling to feed their families be met with churchspeak («pray and God will provide!»)

I worry when my pastor and his family struggle to make ends meet.

With more than 260,000 youngsters in Scotland growing up in families struggling to make ends meet, supporters argue that a # 5 increase in child benefit could remove some 30,000 children from poverty.

And they are MY wages, not yours, not the homeless family's, not the lifelong smoker now suffering from lung cancer, not the single mother of five who is struggling 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.

In addition, students are responsible, whenever possible, for assessing themselves; twice a year, at report - card time, parents or other family members come in to the school for meetings known as student - led conferences, in which students as young as five narrate for their parents and teacher their achievements and struggles over the past semester.

Occasionally I do feel pressured by parents struggling to make ends meet to diagnose a CMPI or reflux so the kid can get free milk, but rather that than having a family with a sick baby struggling to find money to feed themselves and the baby who needs an expensive hydrolysed formula.

«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.

The launch at the House of Commons on 15 November of the first UK - wide World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative (WBTi) report on infant feeding policies and programmes gave some clues to which «stepping stones» along a family's feeding journey are missing, where families are struggling to meet their own breastfeeding goals.

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.

If you're struggling to keep your family organized and the lines of communication open, regular family meetings might be the key.

«NDBN receives calls every day from families struggling to make ends meet.

«Bringing Wal - Mart's culture of corporate recklessness and lawlessness to Queens communities would be devastating to small business owners and working families, who are already struggling to make ends meet.

Another increase in the cost of filling the tank would have been a further blow to many families struggling to make ends meet.

Well first, at a time when hard - working families are feeling the pinch it is vital that action is taken to help low - and middle - income earners who are struggling to make ends meet.

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.

«At a time when families are struggling to make ends meet, this money should stay in the pockets of working New Yorkers rather than going to Washington,» DiNapoli said.

«A continual reliance on a combination of unprecedented borrowing, and fare hikes every two years is unsustainable — not when working families in this city continue to struggle to make ends meet.»

The #GOPTaxScam is an economic missile aimed at families already struggling to make ends meet, which cuts the State and Local Tax deduction (SALT).

The final scene, set in the mid-21st Century, mirrors that of the first; a family struggling to make ends meet, as man has all but used up a coveted resource.

Three million working New Yorkers struggle to get by on $ 8.75 an hour — a minimum wage that makes it impossible for families to meet basic needs.

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.

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

«Unfortunately, options are limited thanks to the 10p tax debacle which has left Gordon Brown with little in the bank to offer the millions of overstretched families struggling to make ends meet.»

Gillibrand begins by talking about NYers who have lost their jobs and families struggling to make ends meets.

«I grew up working class and our family like many today struggled to make ends meet.»

These latest cuts to welfare show the disdain with which this government views ordinary people and underlines just how out of touch they are with working families struggling to make ends meet.

... Taxpayers bailed them out, and now they're back making money while many New York families are still struggling to make ends meet.»

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.

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.

«Over the past decade, rents in Harlem have increased dramatically, pushing out hardworking families who struggle to make ends meet,» said Phil Melton, executive vice president of Bellwether Enterprise.

Poverty continues to persist in New York more than 100 years after this picture of a family struggling to make ends meet was taken on Monroe Street.

The new donations for scholarships would make private and parochial education a reality for families seeking new quality educational opportunities and assist those already enrolled who are struggling to afford tuition at schools that best meet their needs.

Cuomo's budget shows he cares more about providing tax benefits and giveaways to those who donated $ 40,000 to his campaign than he does about meeting the needs of families struggling on $ 40,000 a year.

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.

If you or someone in your family struggles with an eating disorder or are tired of fad diets, Erica and her team will «meet you where you are» and guide you to a better relationship with food and your body.

I started attending regular meetings for family members and partners of people struggling with addictions, which helped me heal and understand some of the familial patterns that were affecting me.