He's a rice farmer, and the price he is paid for his crop simply cannot support a family.
And I learned just how much it means when members of a community reach out to support a family.
Society still expects men to earn enough to support a family.
And a lot of people are thinking, where are those new jobs going to come from, that pay well, have good benefits, can support a family?
While it points out that three-quarters of single mothers are in the workforce, the types of jobs they have make it tough to support a family.
The number of jobs where you can support a family and have a full benefit package on just a high school education, for example, those jobs are flat right now.
Now, the most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country, but not just jobs -- good-paying jobs, ones that can support a family.
These are the people who mow your lawn, flip your burgers and, generally, fill any number of jobs that provide an income that walks the line between the ability to support a family and having insufficient money to keep it all together.
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On the other hand, an insurance company that is on the hook for an accident in which a 20-something is killed may have to shell out the millions that he or she would have earned during a lifetime, or the wealth they would have created, to support a family, send kids to college, and so on.
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So does appreciation: He cited a recent letter of support from a family of an innocent bystander shot dead in 1986, thanking him for his "professionalism and heart" in his pursuit of the killer.
In expensive Guangdong, for instance, a worker's earnings would not support half a family, but many workers come from the Chinese interior and back home they would.
To support a growing family I had day jobs to pay bills, but worked in the evenings and weekends to launch new entities.
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Thus, if we wish to take away this unenviable Catch-22, we can only do by completely removing the safety net, leaving low-income workers with no choice but to work if they want to have any money at all, even if it is insufficient to support a typical family of four.
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Both rose to the top from very low, one the son of a schoolteacher with a large family to support, the other a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust whose family arrived in America destitute after Hungary's 1956 revolt.
Dozens of people have marched through a town on the Isle of Wight in support of the family of a teenager who went missing 16 years ago.
From my experience as a physician, I find that the love and support of a spouse or a family member is the most soothing gift, bringing peace and serenity to those critically ill.
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Do you have support from a partner or family to help with a child with special needs?
"Not having a family support unit around us, we feel it would be in our best interest to return home to Australia, " Latham told the forum.
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"We now have no child support and yet a hypothetical family next door with slightly less income per head will still have this extra income, " the 39-year-old said.
Robert Slough, who is a family support worker, said it was a difficult decision to strike because he was losing wages but said he felt obliged to take action.
There are so many great and inspiring stories which demonstrate that every American can take their time, their expertise and their passion and use it to support and thank a military family.
This surge has been accompanied by the collapse of the lifetime-employment systems in Japanese and South Korean firms, which used to ensure that a single (male) worker's income could support a middle-class family.
Beth Marriott, a family support worker, runs events as part of the city's Underground Restaurant scene, where people go to dinner parties, usually at homes or in community areas, after being emailed venue details days before.
At the same time, he found a way to stay on message, discussing the importance of branding, and throw support to a show, Modern Family, he knew his reporter audience adored.
One of the reasons that the Reynolds women were so attracted to vanilla is that a single producing vanilla vine can support an entire Haitian family financially for a year, much as a cow might help a poor farmer subsist.
This is a wonderful addition to the National Family Caregiver Support Program and it is a perfect way to recognize these caregivers who on average spend 18 hours a week providing care.
That wasn't the case with Tamerlan who had a solid family support system.
The committee then considered correspondence from SNP MSP Bob Doris on support for families abroad when a family member or friend dies abroad.
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