I would not abolish either one. (I did not read the article.)
It’s a dog eat dog world, and you can either work hard and succeed, or lie on your butt and starve AFAIC.
It’s time to rid the country of welfare as a way of life—in a lot of families, it’s been that way for generations.
It’s long passed time to cut this stuff out.
Women having kids out of wedlock? The kids’ should immediately go to a government run orphanage to perhaps be adopted out—or to go to a mandatory school when they’re old enough, where if they do the work and graduate, they may have a chance in this life.
Some might do better off in trade school—and we do need well trained tradesmen.
As long as we are paying large groups of people to have babies out of wedlock, we will never conquer this problem.
Sermon over............
Make college kids hold down an evening (or morning) job and defray part of the cost of their “education”. Lot less chance to get themselves into trouble too.