Is it kind to keep people forever in poverty with a government payment? Or is it better to unlock their potential by having people clean their act up and go to work?
Idle hands are the devils work shop. 
Want to stop a lot of shootings and drugs and lower abortion rates? Make it harder not to have a job.  How many know if as a young man, if you had all your time free (no job) you would have got in trouble? It is hard to hold (any) job and be doing drugs.
Welfare has destroyed the black family(poor white as well).  There is know reason a young mother can not work (working people do it all the time) A mother working is good for both the mother and the child. I am not saying cut worked tax payer supported payment to the truly needy, but welfare should not be a way of life. 
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