to reduce poverty; poverty reduction

assistance to the poor; poverty alleviation

extremely poor but not destitute

to help the poor

poor but upright; destitute

(dialect) to talk nonsense; garrulous

to lift oneself out of poverty

poverty-stricken

to fall back into poverty

(idiom) to rob the rich to help the poor

to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)

to rob the rich to help the poor (idiom)

robbing the rich to help the poor

a son won't abandon his mother for being ugly, just as a dog won't abandon its owner for being poor (proverb)

see 兒不嫌母醜，狗不嫌家貧|儿不嫌母丑，狗不嫌家贫[er2 bu4 xian2 mu3 chou3 , gou3 bu4 xian2 jia1 pin2]