Additionally, in the US at least, the welfare trap keeps a lot of potentially productive people on the fence and out of action because of how obtuse and out of date some of the restrictions are.

Which ends up even being even more undermining when combined with a totally broken and haphazard economy.

Not that I'd be one to promote or suggest even broader handouts, but there really needs to be less hand wringing over letting people on welfare actually save up their money in order to build up some financial security. The key should be on trying to get people to pull themselves off of the welfare, and a lot of people are only going to do that if they think they can safely survive a few trip ups.

Well, or you could eliminate it altogether obviously and let them sink or swim. I don't have a particularly strong argument against that option admittedly, though I'm not always a fan of taking things completely off the table wholesale unless they've proven to be truly cancerous.

Additionally, in the US at least, the welfare trap keeps a lot of potentially productive people on the fence and out of action because of how obtuse and out of date some of the restrictions are.

Which ends up even being even more undermining when combined with a totally broken and haphazard economy.

Not that I'd be one to promote or suggest even broader handouts, but there really needs to be less hand wringing over letting people on welfare actually save up their money in order to build up some financial security. The key should be on trying to get people to pull themselves off of the welfare, and a lot of people are only going to do that if they think they can safely survive a few trip ups.

Well, or you could eliminate it altogether obviously and let them sink or swim. I don't have a particularly strong argument against that option admittedly, though I'm not always a fan of removing things off the table wholesale unless they've proven to be truly cancerous.

Additionally, in the US at least, the welfare trap keeps a lot of potentially productive people on the fence and out of action because of how obtuse and out of date some of the restrictions are.

Which ends up even being even more undermining when combined with a totally broken and haphazard economy.

Not that I'd be one to promote or suggest even broader handouts, but there really needs to be less hand wringing over letting people on welfare actually save up their money in order to build up some financial security. The key should be on trying to get people to pull themselves off of the welfare, and a lot of people are only going to do that if they think they can safely survive a few trip ups.

Well, or you could eliminate it altogether obviously and let them sink or swim. I don't have a particularly strong argument against that option admittedly, though I'm not always a fan of removing things wholesale unless they're truly cancerous.