Struggling to Make Ends Meet at a Poverty Level Wage, Claudia G. Supports Her Family of Six With One Pay check.
Like millions of Americans, Claudia G. struggles to support her family of six and herself.
By Eloise J. Rives
Claudia G. (who did not want to be identified) works at an elementary school in the office as a secretary. She is a single mom that supports six people and herself with a single paycheck.
They all share a one-bedroom house. Living with her is her 23-year-old son and daughter-in-law, her two grandsons and her two teenage daughters.
Claudia, like millions of Americans in the United States, struggles just to make ends meet.
Sometimes she worries about how she might pay the rent for that month.
Her family and her live on paycheck after paycheck because she is the only one that works. There are rare times were she has any extra money left over.
“Life would have been a lot easier if I went to college.”
She wants her kids to have a better life than she did. Every day she reminds her kids that education is the key to a happy successful life. There is not one day that goes by that she does not want a better life for her kids.
As the go by she knows how to manage everything that is going around her.
She knows that all of her children will be a success in life. In whatever they plan to do with their life they will be great at their job.
“If you enjoy what you do for a living, you never work a day in your life.”
She says that if anything were to happen to her … her kids will be okay because she knows that they will know what to do when that time comes.
“Sometimes you have to make the best with what you have.”
Many people say that in order to be privileged you have to have the determination for it. That is true because if you really desire something, you will try your very hardest in order to reach your goal and that means going to college and/or university. Even if you do come from poverty.
“The only way to get out of poverty is to get a good education.”
Claudia wants her kids to go to college. But for sure her first daughter, Samantha is perusing her dream of going to university.
Even though Claudia lives with six other people and only receives one paycheck, she still tries her very best to provide what is needed, and sometimes the things that her kids want. She sees though how sometimes she needs to stare into the sad eyes of her kids wishing she could do more.
To her kids she seems pushing and asking for too much but she is trying to show them the way to a life she can’t give them. So they can go out and be better than she was.
That’s what she lives for to support and push her kids in the direction that she feel they can be happy with so they can have all that she couldn’t give them.
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