make ends meet

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

Although economists say migration tends to improve the overall economy, it can sow fear among those struggling to make ends meet in low-wage jobs.

These brand-new developments were flooded with folks working from home, wanting to live near nature, and just trying to make ends meet.

So many people who voted for Donald Trump told me again and again that they felt the economy was much better when he was in office and they were sick of trying to make ends meet.

They spent hours talking about her background, including her upbringing in a working-class Polish American family where money was so tight, she turned to modeling as a teenager to help her parents make ends meet.