Some have the tendency to lump everyone who receives welfare benefits together collectively as the poor. When I say poor, I'm not referring to the people who are abusing the system. I mean the people who are starving and dying on the system. Yes, I said starving. You don't have to travel to Ethiopia or Somalia to find children suffering from malnutrition.
American children go to school and to bed hungry every day.
Often, if they do get something to eat, it's not necessarily nutritionally balanced. Without the free lunch programs in schools, many children would never get a balanced meal. One girl I know was 13 years old before she discovered that pigs in a blanket were hors d'oeuvres. This family was probably lucky. Many families can't afford to ever eat meat.