need
indigence
pauperism
pauperization
penury
want
neediness
deprivation
privation
impoverishment
dirt-poor
ultrapoverty
struggling
beggary
pauperage
on one's uppers
ultrapoor
poor
poverty-ridden
immiserated
mitching
indigent
destituteness
poorness
deprived
emptyhandedness
being poor is a mindset
reduced circumstances
submerged
misery
impoverishedly
scuffle
not have a bean
impoverishedness
ptochology
close to the bone
poverty line
poverty
poverty level
res angusta domi
poor as a church mouse
deprivational
subaffluent
destitute
mean
pull the devil by the tail
beggarly
fail at life
straitened circumstances
nouveau pauvre