They're actually trying to figure out what they're going to do in terms of making ends meet.
He enjoyed helping the students and "doing something good, " but he was barely making ends meet.
Struggling farmers are making ends meet by selling poorly fed cattle at a loss.
ECONOMIST: Don��t get mad, get organised, battered farmers conclude
And you might already be having trouble making ends meet at the end of the month.
WHITEHOUSE: Shared Responsibility and Shared Prosperity Town Hall
And I don't want it to be middle-class families who are just barely making ends meet.
For America's construction workers and their families, it represents the difference between making ends meet or not.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Tells Congress to Pass Extensions
Big insurers such as Nippon Life and Dai-ichi Mutual have been making ends meet partly by squeezing costs.
Many small business owners feel the pinch each month, barely making ends meet.
They seem more concerned with making ends meet amid a struggling, aid-dependent, economy.
Rathbun had been making ends meet by writing freelance articles for local newspapers and selling beer at a ballpark.
Barely making ends meet and hearing she was earning 14 times less than her co-host, Joe Scarborough, was depressing and painful.
We often get calls to our financial helpline from employees who are having trouble making ends meet or are in debt.
Retirees are having a difficult time making ends meet as it is.
FORBES: Social Security: Small Change To Have A Big Impact On Benefits
For the first time, middle-class Greeks are worried about making ends meet.
The Good News will be loaded with stories of people making ends meet, paying college tuition, getting grants, saving their homes from foreclosure and affording health insurance.
For more than a year, we've been sitting down with Americans around the kitchen table to talk about one thing: money, and how they're making ends meet in this tough economy.
Traveling from city to city for weeks on end barely making ends meet and living out of an automobile is as much a right of passage for an umpire as their first confrontation with a manager.
FORBES: The Plight of The Umpires And The Inevitability Of Instant Replay
But the steady flow of coal and commerce does not stop in Broken Bow, where small stores in the center of town may be showing some improved signs of economic life, but making ends meet on the land gets harder every year.
Suddenly, the recently arrived immigrants from developing cities like Quito, Lagos, and Kuala Lumpur who are used to making ends meet and surviving as a way of life in cities with broken infrastructures seem to be the ones better able to cope.
FORBES: Gas Rationing: New Yorkers, Welcome to the Third World
FORBES: I Married A White-Collar Criminal ... And Paid The Price
The financial strain of unpaid leave is stark: the most recent comprehensive study of those who used FMLA leave found that over half who took leave with less than full pay reported having trouble making ends meet and almost 40 percent put off paying bills.
FORBES: Happy Father's Day to All the New Dads Who Can't Take Leave
By contrast, the young parents, living on only one income, or if the wife has a part-time job, one-and-a-half incomes, of which the take-home portion, after deductions for tax and pension contributions, are economizing, avoiding major purchases, trying to save a little while making ends meet.
FORBES: Generational Accounting and Japan's Social Welfare State
The report suggests that the sustainability of coral reefs will depend in large part on whether developing countries can improve their well-being without falling into a poverty trap -- a situation when communities are forced to degrade the very resources they rely on because of a lack of alternatives for making ends meet.
CNN: Beating poverty could save coral reef fish, report says
You know, people struggle with the day-to-day realities of trying to get by and making ends meet, but in suburban communities, particularly ones where this is a recent phenomenon and a particularly rapid phenomenon, they often don't have the same sorts of services and infrastructure in place to address the challenges that come along with a growing poor population.
They have become experts at making daily ends meet and not pondering the future.
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.
But there is another economy where, instead of simply making money, they make things and ends meet.
The sputtering economy is making it increasingly difficult for Americans to make ends meet.
应用推荐