ABSTRACT
During Congressional hearings on income maintenance programs in 1968, Congresswoman Martha Griffiths, a Democrat from Michigan and a self-described feminist, insisted that exempting AFDC mothers from work requirements would confine them to economic dependence. Welfare rights activists agreed that welfare mothers, and women in general, should have greater access to federal job training programs. However, they rejected any mandatory or coercive work requirements. Note the different emphases of George Wiley, executive director of the NWRO, and Beulah Sanders, a single mother and AFDC recipient activist.
