But Monica's parents' financial situation is getting better and better, isn't it?

Soon, I was 12. Everything was still the same; we still didn’t go on vacation by the sea. Mom and Dad kept saying that the business was affected by the “economic recession.” What they meant was that the domestic economic situation was the root cause of their financial problems. But I had a question: why, under the same economic situation, are my friend Monica’s parents’ finances getting better and better?