How could they be? They get free cereal, milk and orange juice through WIC and they get hundreds of dollars in food stamps for anything else they might want to eat. I have worked with children's programs where some of the kids participating were from low-income homes, and the common denominator was laziness. The children frequently didn't even make it to school, because none of the "adults" (all female) in the house could drag themselves out of bed early enough to get the kids up and ready for school.
Yep. That's been my experience as well.