Wiktionary
vb. 1 having a cash income below the poverty level 2 living in poverty, i.e., leading a life on the same economic level as someone who gets no charity or government benefits and whose cash income is below the poverty level
Usage examples of "live in poverty".
The anti-agathics, in particular, would pose a terrifying dilemma: shall I use my anti-agathic credits now, as money, to relieve my current money miseries, or shall I continue to live in poverty in order to prolong my life?
I did not understand why the men of the church and of the secular arm were so violent against people who wanted to live in poverty and held that Christ had not owned worldly goods.
Almost a quarter of American children now live in poverty - the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world.
But sooner or later, thousands of these legally purchased guns end up in the hands of desperate people who live in poverty and who live with their own set of fears.
You'll live in poverty and you'll die in poverty and your little girl will do the same.