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Be able to be paid a decent wage for this dignified work and not be told that they should just take any old kind of job, not enough money to be able, as reverend jackson would say, to afford healthcare for themselves if they were to get sick. not be able to feed their children. you know, it costs money to go to work. you have to have your hair done. you have to have a shave and a haircut. you know, it costs $2 to get a starbucks on your way to work. and to say that the dignity of work is simply by being able to say, oh, i've got a job and not considering any kinds of work supports or decent sa...

Block increasing the minimum wage? >> it's bad economics, andrew. >> we don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency. >> teach a man how to fish, he can feed himself for a life. don't simply feed fish. >> i mean, do these kinds of comments inspire confidence, sister simone? >> well, not for me, reverend. but i think what really needs to be pointed out is that our pope francis, paul ryan and i share the same faith. and pope francis said that the role of government is to work for the common good. and common good includes ma...

Answers. senator orrin hatch, one of today's first witnesses, wants it answered too. he told the committee he wrote the white house to ask the very question last year and has not yet received an answer. the work requirement has been part of welfare reform since reform was firsted passed by the republican controlled congress during the clinton administration. the reason for it was to end the cycle of dependency that left generations of families dependent on welfare and encouraged single women to have more kids to receive more ben its if. hatch says this work requirement is vital. >> over the ye...