Possible Clues:

• Just manages, with ''out''
• Supplements (with "out")
• Barely manages, with 'out'
• Supplements, with ''out''
• Just makes do (with "out")
• Barely earns, with 'out'
• ___ out a living (scrapes by)
• Barely gets by, with "out"
• ___ out (barely makes)
• Meagerly manages