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Today's society struggles to make ends meet and stay ahead of the game of paying bills and expenses. Many people I talk to have trouble paying their bills each month and saving money for future needs. It's nearly impossible to survive off of one income, anymore, unless the bread-winner has a high paying salary, and many of us are not fortunate enough to have that peace.

Many businesses are going out of business, consolidating and downsizing. It's everywhere, it seems and it's quite scary. I've seen many houses for sale, due to lay-off or threat of foreclosures from high property taxes or variable rate mortgage loans. It's a domino effect, one affect the other but it's not quite clear where it all began. Did the chicken or the egg come first?

The economy has been going down for quite some time, now. Businesses have had to cut back and consumers have had to cut back their spending. There are people out there working multiple jobs just to make ends meet, leaving little, if anything left over after all is said and done for the month. This leads them looking for additional means of income that they can likely do from home or sell while they are out working that second full-time job because there are no more hours in the day to fit in yet a third full-time job.

It's even more difficult if there is only one person in the household.

Single parents have a much more difficult time making ends meet than those who have the option of a working spouse. The entire burden is placed upon them to support their family. Even if there are no children living with them, they often have children to support in addition to themselves. It's a sad reality to see honest, hard working people constantly fall short of their necessary means. What's more difficult is that many of these people are simply trying to bring in enough to pay for basic needs. This does not include those who have a large amount of credit card debts or who go out and overspend their income each month. Cost of living is extremely high nowadays, companies barely offer raises, if at all, and with fuel prices that continue to rise, it's only a matter of time before things worsen.

Many people end up with a roommate, which often brings it's share of additional troubles, such as a non-paying co-tenant.

As a member of online communities, all too often I have seen women and sometimes men turn to sex related work to bring in additional income. Whether it's through being a phone sex operator, an online video chat host, website video

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