>In the USA they had a welfare system back in the 1960s that many saw as actively discouraged employment and dual parent households.

The US had a welfare system since the 30s, and it primarily benefited whites. Blacks were systematically discriminated against, denied benefits, and kicked off benefits where whites were not.

> “From the early history of the country’s welfare programs, allowing local discretion as to who can receive benefits has continually led to African American families receiving less or getting tossed off the rolls altogether. When mothers’ pensions, the precursor to welfare, were launched in the early 20th century, they mostly went to white women. Case workers had a fair amount of discretion in who received these pensions, and they believed African American women should work—something they tended to believe was beneath white women. They regularly denied African American women pensions” [1]

> “The ADC was an extension of the state-operated mothers’ pension programs, where white widows were the primary beneficiaries. The criteria for eligibility and need were state-determined, so blacks continued to be barred from full participation because the country operated under the “separate but equal” doctrine adopted by the Supreme Court in 1896.” [2]

When more blacks were able to enroll in programs, due to LBJ’s war on poverty and the civil rights movement, attitudes on welfare began to change. Then Reagan played on those racial attitudes and shaped the modern conception of the lazy black welfare queen ghetto culture.

> “The term “welfare” had a positive connotation among Americans before the 1960s, according to Soss, but as the program became more diverse, stereotypes about “freeloaders” started to emerge.” [1]

>” During [the Reagan administration], data from public polls indicate that a growing percentage of Americans believed that slackness and lack of motivation to work were the main causes of poverty” [3]

> “This anti-welfare-ideology manifested itself in an altered perception of welfare recipients and a changed view on poverty. The poor were no longer regarded as victims of the economic system… Blaming the poor for their life situation is nothing new, but within the Reagan years stigmatization intensified drastically. Besides emphasizing dependency over poverty, the government allowed the term welfare to be further labeled by race and gender. Although welfare has always been associated with these terms, the administration’s welfare-state-rhetoric involved severe generalizations and moralistic accusations. Additionally, the promotion of negative stereotypes incorporated the distinction between those in need of protection, the undeserving poor, and the deserving poor, including “welfare queens” and “freeloaders”. The “truly needy” considered as deserving assistance, are, inter alia, the elderly or disabled, so to speak groups who should not be expected to work.” [3]

> These policies were meant to help American Blacks recover from centuries of discrimination. But the unfortunate part is that it just ended up creating permanent ghetto subcultures of culturally ingrained poverty, crime, and government dependency.

There is little to no data indicating welfare is responsible for black poverty. There is lots of data that hundreds of years of slavery, followed by a hundred years of Jim Crow, followed by redlining [4], followed by using highway construction, urban planning, and eminent domain to destroy black communities [5], followed by the war on drugs created expressly so Nixon could target black people [6], and hundreds of other policies and actions targeting black people and black communities are responsible for black poverty.

> “We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did" [6]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/race-sa...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/fbd5d3c83e3243e9b03e46d7cb842eaa

[3] https://www.grin.com/document/519964

[4] https://www.npr.org/2017/05/03/526655831/a-forgotten-history...

[5] https://www.itdp.org/2021/03/10/highways-and-zoning-tools-of...

[6] https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-ant...