[David]

So what's the answer?

Education on handling money? Most of these poor are the ones who felt like they were being forced to be at school, didn't pay attention enough to learn anything, so another class on handling money wouldn't teach them anything either.

Cut off the free money if they don't learn new skills? See above.

Cut off the free money after a period of time? We've already discussed how they're terrible at making good decisions, so will this really help them get off the poor cycle?

So now what? We've cut off the money and they have to eat and feed and cloth all these kids they popped out. Humm? "Rich people have money, let's go take their money!" Get gun, rob people, problem solved. Until of course they get caught and we're paying to house and feed them for the next 20 years.

My solution: give them free money but don't take it all away when they earn money. Take away 50 cents for every dollar they earn to encourage some work which might actually get them to work more and more. If people are fine living on next to nothing for the rest of their life, so be it.