ABSTRACT
This cartoon appeared in Business Week on April 3, 1973. It contrasts a “welfare mother,” with several children and a shopping cart full of various “welfare benefits,” to a “working mother,” whose paycheck seems meager in comparison. As the cartoon suggests, during the 1970s, many critics painted AFDC as an unfair privilege, enabling poor single mothers to devote themselves to full-time caregiving even as married mothers were forced into the labor market by rising costs and stagnant wages. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203707418/366bcfdf-97b1-4bff-8619-bba37b20ad3e/content/doc29_page184-01_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
