No, but that was an entirely different sort of poor or low income. They really did go to bed hungry. I don’t believe the stats on hunger in America today either. No one in this country today *has* to go to bed hungry.
BTW my Dad was raised in an orphanage during the depression. His Dad died in 1932 and his Mom could not take care of the 4 kids. He said they actually had a good life there, ate well (there was a farm and the kids did help, altho he said it was not back breaking labor, more like chores—but they always had fresh stuff from the farm). He lived there from the time he was 10 until he was 17, I think. It was not state run, but run by a church. He doesn’t have anything bad to say about it. I think in many ways he was better off there. They attended school, they attended church and he’s an awesome person today. Seems like a better system than the current foster care system I read about in the papers.