make ends meet

Loren Cannon, a philosophy lecturer at Cal Poly Humboldt and California Faculty Assn. bargaining team member, called the board’s decision a “distributive injustice” — especially at a time when many employees are struggling to make ends meet.

She did our family’s laundry, but also that of some White families, as many other Colored women did to make ends meet.

On the days when I wasn’t teaching, I also helped make ends meet as the director of the local United Service Organizations, or USO, assisting members of the military to find jobs and housing.

“It’s getting tougher and tougher every month for low-income households to make ends meet,” Bandebo said.

He is currently pitching ideas like a “head tax” on employees of big companies, a yacht tax and an Uber tax to make ends meet.