Hi Ryan, here is what the dictionaries say: scrape by (on something) to manage to live on the money you have, but with difficulty • I can just scrape by on what my parents give me. scrape through (something) phrasal verb to only just succeed in passing an examination or dealing with a difficult situation: I managed to scrape through the exam. scrape something ↔ together/up phrasal verb to get enough money for a particular purpose, when this is difficult: She scraped together the last of her savings. They could hardly scrape up enough money for the train fare. I hope the examples gave you a clear picture of what it means as well as how it is usually used.

Scrape: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/scrape Although in this case it's being used as an idiom, or perhaps a metaphor, or a simile? I don't know, one of them. It means to struggle to get enough money together to even buy shoes. It's saying that one person has enough money to eat well and not worry while the other has barely enough money to cloth their children.

In this sentence "scrape" means to struggle and work very hard to be able to provide for your family. Sometimes, people who are struggling with money in their life will say: I am just "scraping by." Sometimes, "scrape" doesn't mean you don't have enough money. You can say, I "scrape out" a good living as a chef, for example. But generally, scrape will be used to talk about one's difficulty to provide and earn.

Scrape means to get by/just get enough. In this sentence 'while you scrape to find enough' means that someone is struggling to find money to buy shoes for their children. They are not wealthy, rather they are 'scraping by'.