$35.00 a week.
I grew up hungry as a child, with frequent periods of a sole diet of rationed rice or oatmeal, or perhaps a single pan of cornbread split between 3 boys and a mom for the supper.
I was 17 before I realized that white people could get welfare, and that was because after my mother remarried our step dad drove us to California to visit family and I asked about the government marked food cans in their garage, where they came from, how did they get them.