Related Clues:

• Impecunious
• Lacking lucre
• Down-and-out
• In dire straits
• Down on one's luck
• Like many scholarship recipients
• Far from flush
• Dirt-poor
• Emotionally demanding
• Far from affluent
• High-maintenance
• Far from rich
• Unable to make it on one's own
• Like a soup kitchen habitue
• In utter want