The problem is essentially that you can get paid $X to not work at all, or you can maybe get paid $Y to work some shitty job. But you can't get the $X that you

The problem is essentially that you can get paid $X to not work at all, or you can maybe get paid $Y to work some shitty job. But you can't get the $X that you'd get if you didn't work at all, and add on $Z dollars working a job of some kind. The perverse incentives of these programs around their phaseouts are and have long been a reality of low-income communities.