But the country is dirt poor and had a problem with street children even before the war.

We were all dirt poor, and he was the only one who had money."

Our house had great leftovers and we were dirt poor.

And in Venezuela, despite its oil, more than 85 percent of the people are still dirt poor.

Maybe the worst thing about being dirt poor was not having any choices.

Shawn is the middle boy of a dirt poor farm family.

With proper financing, they could probably take over on their own, but they're dirt poor.

She took in people and fed neighbors, even when we were still dirt poor.

He grew up dirt poor in Nevada, and his mother had no teeth.

Filthy rich, we say, is a far cry from dirt poor.

We grew up dirt poor and miserable all the time."

Even if they are dirt poor, Albanian farmers seem to be slightly better off.

The family they grew up in, Otis said, was dirt poor, but not twisted.

She has described her family as being "dirt poor".

He was dirt poor, and Gray didn't have the heart to steal from him, either.

I grew up dirt poor and know the meaning of needing."

Everyone there belonged to the same social stratum - dirt poor.

The immigrants, on the other hand, were new to America, and most of them were dirt poor.

Even if you're absolutely brilliant but also dirt poor.

The world know he's a brutal, failed dictator of a dirt poor, little island.

Then he had looked again and realized that most of them were poor; dirt poor.

But many, many more people here are dirt poor.

Of course, if you were dirt poor, it'd work.

There would be colonists eventually; dirt poor, ignorant, without any advanced technology.

Strong logic for buying a box of matches if you are dirt poor and abused.

The dirt-poor country has few natural resources and only 1.6 million people.

Yet a third of the country’s 50m people are dirt-poor.

There was something about the way she said it that made me believe she’d been raised dirt-poor.

He was dirt-poor as a kid growing up in the Philippines.

I get the impression his family didn't have much, that they were dirt-poor.

Come on, man, you know how this works, it's street religion, came out of a dirt-poor place a million years ago.

It's symbolic of what it means for all our families, like my mother, who were dirt-poor.

For most of the century, this was scenic but dirt-poor mountain country.

There were about a dozen or so folk, most of them looking to be dirt-poor.

Half of a little left nothing, and the Latchers were dirt-poor.

In these dirt-poor villages, most can only dream of rebuilding.

His parents weren't dirt-poor, but he was raised in the Depression so they had to scramble.

You grew up dirt-poor, raised a kid by yourself, and then got this incredible break.

In the early years, with four young mouths to feed, they were dirt-poor.

When Matt’s team travels abroad it is accompanied by coaches who spot future stars among dirt‑poor street kids.

The Government inherited a stable but dirt-poor, economy, with unemployment about 35 percent.

Such are the growing pains of a nascent industry in a dirt-poor African country.

We're not rich by any means, but we aren't dirt-poor either."

Libya is a country of only 6.5 million people, oil-rich but still in many ways dirt-poor.

Be that as it may, al-Qaeda is flourishing in this dirt-poor country.

Over time, his claim of once having been dirt-poor has shown him to be only one with, well, the person who said she would not run.

This seems like a sleepy place, a dirt-poor region that the Asian economic miracle has left behind.

We were dirt-poor, but Jane didnt seem to notice or care.

“Putting hundreds of millions of dirt-poor people to work is.

My family was dirt-poor when I was a child.