You are blaming the poor for their poverty. Benefits make them unpoor if you count them as income. Granted, people should be paid to go to school, both in and before they get benefits and instead of special income maintenance benefits, the poor and the middle class should all get a universal tax credit of $1000 per month per child wages or other benefits.  Prison for trivial drug crimes and bad segregated schools ruined the black family. Bussing probably would have prevented this.