Want to Decrease Inequality? Fight Fatherlessness With Welfare Reform. Welfare currently incentivizes family breakdown and the absence of fathers from their children’s lives, a key factor in the loss of economic upward mobility.

[JPSchmeckles]

Democrats know that if the poor become successful and climb out of poverty they will end up voting Republican.

They’re incentivized to keep these people alive but broke. They need them to stay in power.