This all started with Cloward Piven in 1965.
The welfare “rights” movement, founded by the notorious socialists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, was not established to guarantee welfare to the poor... both longtime members of the Democrat Socialists of America..
As they said, their purpose was to pack the welfare rolls with so many beneficiaries that the government would collapse of its own weight. In the ensuing riots, they sought anarchy, using a militant poor as their foot soldiers. They could not care less what happened to the poor in prosecuting this agenda, and they said so.