No, I've been fortunate enough to not have to rely on food stamps.
I believe in assistance for those who truly need it such as the elderly, handicapped or single parent households and in some cases, college students... but if you're capable of working, then you don't need to have them.
But if the parent isn't helping the kid, and the kid has to provide for themselves, it doesn't matter if the parents are middle-class because the kid is not. The kid is poor because he's living off of his income, not his parents.
Do middle class kids even have that problem? I'm from a middle/upper middle class culture and no parents I know would completely cut off their kid while they're pursuing higher education.
I hate when people say if you're capable of working then you shouldn't have them. Let's instead talk about the real problem here. How you gonna live on minimum wage in America? You can't. Not everyone can afford a college degree and even those that do have degrees don't guarantee a well paying job. There's people with jobs that make a little over minimum wage that can't get assistance but are still essentially poverty level. So people quit their jobs so they can actually get the assistance they need instead of working. So before we decide to put restrictions on this kind of system how about we put that energy toward fixing the real problem here. You can't fix Americas social problems with a broken system.