I haved lived the majority of my life in working class communities (as an electrician). Despite sporadic eligibility, I've never applied for the benefits that many of my near poor neighbors receive (I am a simple homebody, with zero dependents).

>negative incentives for people receiving support, it doesn't uplift and enable success, it keeps people trapped in poverty and a mindset of helplessness.

For the majority of my recipient neighbors, I would disagree: [single] parent households simply are too expensive to operate without temporary community support.

Conversely, I have a few childless neighbors that simply ride out "disability" payments while working cash jobs part-time, typically along the lines of handyman and/or dealer. This bothers me.

Few of my neighbors are incentivized to work harder (at least on paper), out of fear of losing healthcare/housing/dining benefits.

Several of my wealthier clients had PPP loans "pre-emptively forgiven," and pay my neighbors cash for housework, so I know all sides are gaming this system...

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But it just seems so obvious that single-payer healthcare and subsidized childcare would solve most of society's problems (much more simply than our current failures of welfare). These are the legitimate grievances of my working class neighborhood.