A Pennsylvania mother of two recently took to social media to voice her frustrations with the financial state of her family, and she quickly found she’s far from alone.
Mackenzie Moan is a full-time worker, a full-time student, and, of course, a full-time mom. Her husband also works two full-time jobs with a side hustle to boot. And yet they barely make ends meet every month.
“I feel like my husband and I are doing everything right. We both have good jobs. I’m a registered nurse who works full-time. He works full time,” Moan said through tears in a video she posted to TikTok
“We just got paid this past Friday, right? We paid the mortgage, bought some groceries, put some gas in the car… Guys, it is Tuesday, and we have like $200 or $300 to last us until next Friday.”
The video was captioned, “normal people are struggling. Something has to change,” and in it, Moan detailed her husband’s work week, which includes overtime, as well as her own job as a registered nurse.
She also discussed how her family doesn’t live beyond its means and dwells in a three-bedroom, one-bathroom ranch home.
“I don’t know what to do,” she said in the video. “I'm so stressed out.”
She obviously isn’t the only person who feels that way.
“I thought maybe my 30-some followers on TikTok might resonate,” Moan told Fox News. So far, the video has been seen upwards of 1.5 million times after just a few days, which she says illustrates just how bad the economy has been for everyday people.
“Middle-class America is feeling the financial pressure right now,” she said, revealing that she and her husband clean office buildings together once a week as a side job. Her husband also collects a check as a personal trainer.
She offered that so many families in the U.S. are just one emergency expenditure from falling deeply into debt.
“If our furnace were to go out right now, we’d have no way to fix it. If our car died right now, we’d have no way to fix it,” she said. “My family, and millions of other families, are one financial crisis away from disaster.”