If you had no prospects of reasonable employment in the near future, one would assume you were disabled. Each state provides food stamps and assistance for that.
Our local supermarket chain has predominantly mildly mentally retarded young people working the cash registers, loading shelves, replacing carts, cleaning, sweeping. They are all pleasant, accurate and high-functioning salary earners. There are several group homes for the more severely impared. They sell home-made choc. chip cookies at the local eatiers, I have noticed.
And in this rural, old-fashioned community with a high percentage of the full-time population going to church, there are many support systems for those in trouble who have no families. We have food drives, deliver meals-on-wheels to people who can’t get out during the winter, drive folks to doctor’s appointments, and pay attention. The local paper always writes articles about these issues.
You do write an elegant sentence; I hope that you will not be spending this winter in sleeping bag in the NY sewer system. Move to a small town instead and learn how to paint, pet-watch or mow fields.