They struggle to earn enough money to bring home the bacon.
VOA: special.2009.10.18
There is a growing movement of do-it-yourselfers (DIYers) eager not just tobringhomethebacon, but tobringhomethe pork, butcher it, cure it, smoke it and make their own bacon.
In some companies, they are expected to write reports that will bringhomethebacon, either by encouraging the observed company to switch their corporate share dealing and issuing business tothe analyst's City firm, or by stopping the company from moving this money-spinning trade elsewhere.