They're already being paid.
So, you think that welfare programs pay the equivalent of a full time job?
Back when Bill Clinton signed Newt's "Contract with America" at that time, people on welfare could collect it for 5 years during that time they find work or skills that would make them employable. On year 5 welfare was cut off, and Bill Clinton supposedly had a roaring economy. When Obama came in, he made welfare for a lifetime, and 99 weeks unemployment, and soon his economy was the most in poverty since the war on poverty started.
Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record
Fifty years after President Johnson started a $20 trillion taxpayer-funded war on poverty, the overall percentage of impoverished people in the U.S. has declined only slightly and the poor have lost ground under President Obama.
Liberal think that putting more people in poverty will get them more voters like the Obamaphone lady, but what it did was piss off the hard working voter who went and pulled the lever for Donald J. Trump who said he was going to bring jobs back to the US..