I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.
American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.
If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.
I am fighting on many fronts to protect access to affordable health care because I don't want to see medical bills continue to climb and millions of people to lose coverage.
Too many families are working incredibly hard, but their wages never seem to go up and their health care bills only get harder to pay.
Everybody is looking for that chiseled guy. Just because they have a lot of muscles, they think he's the strongest guy out there, this and that. Lucky for me, the skills pay the bills.
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
In prison, you have to forget about the world on the outside. You have no Internet, no communications, and you're cut off from the whole world. Everything is given to you. You have shelter; you have food, a shower, water. You don't need to spend a dime. You don't have to worry about bills.
I think we've found a better solution on North Haven and Vinalhaven: Instead of paying increasing expensive electric bills every month, with the money going out of our community, out of state, and even out of the country, the wind turbines bring the promise of decades of steady rates with the money staying right here.
I was broke from 19 to 26, borrowing money from my parents or my brothers or sisters every week to pay the bills.
