scratch a living
cash-starved
strapped for money
strapped for cash
underlive
primary poverty
penniless
underearn
wealthless
scrape by
subsistence level
impecunity
scuffle
red cent
ramen profitable
poor
low water
dime
princely sum
shoe string
obolary
shoestring
oofless
budget
farthingless
subsist
underearner
moneyless
slim pickings
starvation wage
chicken feed
pennies on the dollar
secondary poverty
drab
microeconomy
in need
cut one's coat according to one's cloth
hand to mouth
wage slavery
flotsam and jetsam
dollarless
nonaffluence
microbudget
two pennies to rub together
arm
not have a bean
thrift
pennies
pauperism
poormouth
privation
incomelessness
cent
penny-wise
have-not
pauper
pittance payment
undernourishment
pauperage
pay the rent
Franklinize
nonearner
loose change
JAM
Lazarus layer
emptyhandedness
on the breadline
tighten one's belt
paltry
peanuts
passive income
have-a-little
self-depreciation
in the bucket
bludge
nouveau pauvre
scarceness
licence to print money
broke
unpossessing
whip the cat
fail at life
wooden nickel
Micawber threshold
poverty is a state of mind
undermoneyed
driblet
hog train
impoverish
destitute
undersave
tapped out
underpopulated
underpaid
underresourced
unmoneyed