And since we are alal concerned about money, there is a cost associated with poverty that could affect all of us.  Not in tax money, but in social illness, crime, higher levels of violence, disfunctional families.        I'm fine with those who say government programs do not work perfectly and in some cases may have created new problems.   By measurement alone you can see that two parent families with long term care of children is far too rare.   One parent with children is a tough situation add low income and you are lucky to break even with child care cost and the children have no parent much of the day.   I have been in this situation, but I had resources to help me, financially, a home, good friends.     It was still difficult, mostly in not having an adult to talk to when you need some relief.

Anyway, our help seem to have created a problem in that it encourages men and women to stay unmarried for reasons that we can all guess at.  It's the children at risk.