hard-pressed vs poverty-ridden

hard-pressed

adj
  • Experiencing financial difficulty or difficulty in surviving. 

  • Barely able. Having difficulty doing something. 

poverty-ridden

adj
  • During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty. 

  • Suffering from poverty. 

  • Filled with or plagued by poverty. 

How often have the words hard-pressed and poverty-ridden occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )