Paying people who make bad life decisions more well not stop them from making those bad decisions and suffer those bad outcomes. I was born in poverty and come from a family with a deep history of poverty. My grandfather was orphaned as child and raised basically as an indentured servant on a south Texas ranch. He never set foot inside a school but he worked hard his entire life, not just taking the easy but dead end jobs and raised a family. They were poor but his kids did better than he did and grandchildren even better.

Not all of them succeeded but the ones who not only worked hard but made good decisions did well. That is the only answer I have seen to poverty. If your forty and working at fast food 99 times out of a 100 poor life choices are to blame. You don't keep people from making poor choices by telling then their problems are someone else's fault.