[brownbat]

> Everyone does seem to agree, though, that welfare traps are a problem

Do you have any programs like the EITC, where benefits fall on a curve and slowly phase out as you make more, so there's no hard cliff?

Wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit

Graph: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earned_IncomeTaxCreditW...

[Gravityloss]

We have the opposite, it's more of a skyline graph. If you receive subsidies, a lot of the time, working or studying will yield large and unexpected decreases to your total amount of income.