ABSTRACT
In this exchange during Congressional hearings on the 1967 welfare amendments, liberal Senator Robert Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, opposes work requirements for AFDC mothers and argues that jobs for poor men would be the best solution to growing welfare rolls. Meanwhile, conservative Senator Russell Long, a Democrat from Louisiana, argues in favor of work requirements for poor single mothers on AFDC. Note, however, that they both agree that AFDC encourages “broken families” and out-of-wedlock births.
