make ends meet

To make ends meet, Matthew already has to spend time away from the farm doing freelance dry stone walling work, and Liz runs a full-time business, with another part-time job to keep the family afloat.

It’s a far cry from her low-income upbringing, where the family struggled to make ends meet, she said.

“But I know lots of people who, in order to make ends meet, don’t have this luxury. Therefore, their life is much more violent.”

Like many canners, Dash relies on canning to make ends meet, but it is not his only income.

“I am very familiar with the experience of immigrants struggling to make ends meet,” he said, “because I was one.”