At a time when families across our country are struggling to make ends meet, ensuring a fair wage for all parents is more important than ever.
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Whether you're a military dad returning from deployment or a father doing his best to make ends meet for his family in a tough economy, being a parent isn't easy.
It can supplement a low income to make ends meet, make an expensive hobby affordable, give your online savings account a big boost, and give you the added security of diversifying your income.
After months sending out resumes with no response, Alvo started driving a cab to make ends meet.
While most people in this country struggle to make ends meet, a few of the most affluent citizens and corporations enjoy tax breaks and loopholes that nobody else gets.
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But here is what every American knows: While most people in this country struggle to make ends meet, a few of the most affluent citizens and most profitable corporations enjoy tax breaks and loopholes that nobody else gets.
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Less hours, no healthcare, and a lack of benefits and money are being traded in for a steady paycheck to make ends meet with.
Since losing my teaching job, every morning I wait by the phone hoping for a possible sub assignment to make ends meet.
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So they will look elsewhere, perhaps a booster, for ways to make ends meet.
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It still poses a burden for Americans trying to make ends meet.
On the issue of the janitors, it is -- if you work for an hourly wage, and you earn overtime, and you depend on that overtime to make ends meet, it is simply a fact that a reduction in overtime is a reduction in your pay.
While there are a great many people that are already cutting these sorts of corners to make ends meet, there are an awful lot of people who are blowing through their money on a daily basis.
For these men, not a lot of extra dough is required to make ends meet.
While Americans are struggling to make ends meet during these tough economic times, a return to reasonably priced gasoline would certainly help Americans reduce their monthly expenses without sacrificing valuable goods and services.
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But the impact of doubling or tripling the costs of home-heating and transportation to the middle-class and working families, like a single mother and waitress who struggles to make ends meet, are all too real.
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Japanese doctors also make ends meet by filling their own prescriptions, pocketing a markup.
Nuraini runs a small shop the family opened to try to make ends meet.
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He had a free ride while the rest of us struggled to make ends meet.
His dad, "Big Russ, " was a sanitation worker who had often worked two shifts to make ends meet.
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Mr Sarkozy had to work for two years in an ice-cream parlour to finance his law degree, and as a flower-delivery boy in order to help the family make ends meet.
He hired a ranch hand, but still had to work construction jobs to make ends meet.
As a result, households have had to dip into their savings to make ends meet.
Greece is in the grip of a years-long recession, and many people are struggling to make ends meet.
To make ends meet Van Nieuwenhuyse, now 50, had to turn NovaGold into a sand-and-gravel producer in western Alaska.
Food pantries in a Pennsylvania suburb see an increase in families who still can't make ends meet despite having jobs.
To accommodate his new lifestyle, Drury now works 50 hours a week rather than 70, and it's sometimes difficult to make ends meet.
Wounded veterans or their spouses often have to find a new career or go back to school, making it hard to make ends meet, Wallrath said.
Some of the band members held manual jobs to make ends meet: Van Zandt worked construction, Lopez put in time at a boatyard and on commercial fishing boats.
That same black woman lived in a two-bedroom home and saw her parents bust their butts to make ends meet, and scrape together every penny to send their children to the nation's finest schools.
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