Making Ends Meet_01

B – Judy Paige, 45, stands in front of the RV she has lived in with her two children, Isabella, 12, and Sophie, 10, for three years. Paige lost her job as a Medical Assistant at Mills-Peninsula Medical Center in Burlingame, California, after her now ex-husband screamed inside her workplace and scared patients. She had a second job at the time, but it wasn’t enough to pay rent after he drained their joint bank account. She has not found steady work since that incident. Paige finds a way to pay for essentials and the gas and oil that keep the RV running each month, but it is not easy. Sometimes she will clean a friend’s house or find and sell goods from the dumpster behind a local Pottery Barn, but the money is not regular.