necessitous

Back in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt, in his inaugural address, pointed out that "a necessitous man is not a free man."

As memories of subsistence struggles recede, people who are no longer necessitous are indeed free — free to use politics for unpleasant self-expression.

“If you just can’t get ‘necessitous’ out, and the author’s happy with it, you can go for ‘needy’.”

FDR said “necessitous men are not free men,” implying that government can and should remove necessity from the human story.

Fired workers can collect unemployment, but the court says those who quit don’t get compensation unless they have a “necessitous and compelling” reason for leaving the job.