There is essentially no more cash welfare anymore. You can get food stamps, disability, unemployment, but old fashion cash welfare is essentially gone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/opinion/sunday/why-i-was-wrong-about-welfare-reform.html
It seems to me that we're (often) discussing the wrong things.
research finds that because of welfare reform, roughly three million American children live in households with incomes of less than $2 per person per day, a global metric of extreme poverty. That’s one American child in 25. They would be counted as extremely poor if they lived in Africa, and they are our neighbors in the most powerful nation in the world
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/opinion/sunday/why-i-was-wrong-about-welfare-reform.html
It seems to me that we're (often) discussing the wrong things.