poverty-ridden

adjective3

1. •
   Filled with or plagued by poverty.

   • Fresh from the poverty-ridden hillsides of Connaught, these rich grazing-lands, comfortable houses, magnificent demesnes and castles, are unspeakably grateful to the eye and healing to the spirit. — 1901
2. •
   Suffering from poverty.

   • […] a young girl is sent to prison and forcibly fed with a tube through the nose for telling poverty-ridden slum-women how to keep from becoming pregnant! — 1917
3. •
   During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty.

   • Friends soon tell each other their troubles, and she found that Carry’s haunting fear was of a poverty-ridden old age. — 1915