Ok, so I know my proposals of social safety nets have been met with negative stuff but here's the hypothesis and the mode of thinking I have.
Since most people in poverty are in a "survival mode" when it comes to amenities, housing, food, etc. they ain't got time to better themselves, especially if there's no way to advance.
By having things like support and vocational education, you can get someone out of survival mode, making them a more productive member of society who pays back what was invested. That's just a hypothesis so it is to be taken with a grain of salt
Also, as someone who's done both, vocational schools should be as heavily promoted and lauded as university education. I'd argue even more so because, with vocational school, you get skills that you can immediately use in your desired field, build valuable connections, and even if you're not rich, you'll never go hungry. Due to the constant cultural pressure to go to college, you get these kids who force themselves to rack up tons of debt. But if you were to educate them on the various alternatives, I bet you that college debt would take a nosedive within that given generation.
There is the seen, and the unseen.
What you are not seeing is the cost transfer onto the backs of the very people you propose to help. Every government program bears a cost, and the cost of those programs is always transferred to the final consumer, either via higher prices, or absence of employment opportunities. High income earners, like many of us here, find this a nuisance. Those at median income levels find their lives quite affected. Those well below median income find life impossible.
If a tax or regulation increases production costs, the business owners don't ordinarily pay those costs, they just raise their prices to recover those costs, to the point they can no longer be competitive with international providers of those products. Those domestic entities either close up shop, or they move production overseas. So...prices go up, and opportunities for gainful employment go down.
I *strongly* encourage you to read Friedman, Hazlitt, von Mises, Hayek, Bastiat, and a host of others. Much of that reading is available for FREE at
https://fee.org/. Start with Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson." It's short, maybe 100 total pages, and written in plain English, unlike the Keynesian/Marxist gibberish designed to confuse, and only amounts to so much navel-gazing. Reading very much of any of those guys will lead you to discover the futility of those things for which you are currently an advocate.
If you want to understand why that social safety net not only doesn't work, but (more importantly) is utterly immoral, then read Ayn Rand for good measure.
