1) the Roman Empire was not a welfare state so He didn't have to address that problem,
While this is wildly divergent from the topic, Rome was in a sense a 'welfare state'. It is, in fact, often claimed by modern libertarian historians as an example of the inevitable failure of welfare states.
You may be familiar with the phrase 'bread and circuses'. This of course stems from ancient Rome - specifically from the satirist Juvenal - who claimed the rulers of Rome simply bought the support of the populace by the distribution of bread to the poor and by the provision of frivolous entertainment (incidentay they didn't actually distribute bread in Juvenal's day, the dole was paid in grain, but this was changed to the distribution of bread not long after under Aurelian - along with salt, pork and wine).
In Jesus' day, about a third of the Roman populace were living off the free grain distributed by the state