Wait a minute .... Moosechelle knows everything.
All they’ve done by subsidizing food for non-contributors is made it increase in price for the rest of us.
In the early days of the great migration of people from rural areas to the northern cities for industrial work, many of the grandparents still knew how to farm and they grew vegetables in their small yards. Pole beans, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, rhubarb, mustard or collard greens, cabbages, squash, sunflowers -- easy to grow even in somewhat limited light if the street was wide enough and not overgrown with trees.