Curious, but what by metric are you judging welfare to not work?

I'm pretty sure fewer people die of malnutrition and more people can eat better food as a result of welfare. I'm pretty sure more people have the ability to keep a roof over their heads because of welfare, too.

Given the current unemployment rates it also seems odd that we'd want to predicate the "success" of welfare on whether it is able to make even more people join the workforce.

There are, of course, many flaws with the system. But asserting that it doesn't work doesn't advance discourse in any meaningful way.