What does a BYUI students life in poverty look like?

Alot of the things I write about may take a while to prove. I make assumptions first hope I'm wrong so I can feel better about my situation study it and find out most of the time that I am Infact right. It was about a year ago after reading a Facebook post that I wondered if more young couples than I thought were using government programs such as ahcccs and medicaid to pay for their childbirths. Even though I had friends who did use those programs I thought for the most part people my age who were members of my faith did not. They were taught they needed to PROVIDE for their families by whatever means necessary. It wasn't until after I read this post which had absolutely no hint or mention of this subject that I decided to dig deeper into finding answers. That's why I wrote this post titled "Taking a break trying a new path"
In that post there was another article I wanted to include from 2009 but couldn't find it until yesterday. Here's the link.
http://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/news/madison-county-the-poorest-in-idaho/article_2faa2f30-a5b7-5048-bfd7-987b1a3b1b8d.html?mode=jqm
Another article discussing poverty among college married couples that doesn't dig enough to find a real solution or the root of the problem. Yeah, we get it, they don't have money but how are they getting funds to take vacations and trips when we should question weather or not they should be taking those trips in the first place. They are using taxpayer dollars. Taxpayers should have a say. Right?
Here is my question. Is this couple genuinely poor enough to receive the government help. I mean they look poor and according to the article they make no income so they are extremely poor which makes them eligible for free housing.

Let me give you an idea of what my life was like around this time. I had just had a baby who was in the hospital for RSV. So not only do I have my first c section hospital bill that I am paying I also have another hostpital bill that I need to pay for. It was around this time I also used credit cards to help subsidies my housing. I was probably making around 30 k a year which more than qualified me for some government programs but no I was donating twice a week to the plasma center to again subsidize my food. One of those weeks I donated half of that plasma money to the food bank.

Now let's look and see how a life in poverty while in college looks like. Unfortunately because of privacy concerns i will not disclose where i found this info.  Three months prior to this news article being written this couple and their 2 kids were in......Florida going to Disneyworld. A month after this article was written the Husband was in Alaska for two weeks. Now remember he is not employed at this time his income is zero so where is the money coming from? The wife during this time took her two kids from Rexburg Idaho to California for those two weeks. The info I have doesn't specify if she drove or flew. With two kids I'm guessing she flew. So no work they get free housing free food free formula both kids births were probably paid through medicaid with very little out of their pocket.
 That's what poverty looks like? It's a slap in the face to me who thought I was ok when I wasn't. It's funny how much info behind the story there is that is hidden.

Update. I didn't want to go back and edit my post. I wanted to allow myself and others to see even I make mistakes while writing. My timing is a little off. My wife was pregnant with my second. We did not have her yet. We were still struggling and making it due to plasma donations. I actually found a small segment from our blog about the food donation that we needed for ourselves but instead donated. This again is half of our plasma donation that we donated so that college kids with no income could travel by airplane to visit family or expensive truck owners could keep their nice houses. Just months later we were asking for an extension on our rent.

I understand that there are people who genuinely need help but I also know that unfortunately through our helping all we are doing is sustaining people's lifestyle. As is with the above article example. They did not truly sacrifice with all that help. It sustained a lifestyle they were used to. It's not until they truly sacrifice and live as pioneers in a sense that they will appreciate a dollar appreciate being independent appreciate giving then appreciate receiving. 

WIC Medicaid Housing assistant program and church programs if they were involved. You have failed with this family. They should not of received so much when it was obvious with a Disneyworld trip Alaska trip and California trip that they DID not NEED assistance. They AND their PARENTS ABUSED the welfare system. Their parents obviously were not suffering through the great recession and why should they have to support their grown children. It is my argument that they (the parents) carefully calculated a way to keep their money for luxuries while their kids were fed with the welfare spoon. This while some of us THOUGHT we were doing the right thing when we were selling our blood to EAT and share our food.