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...Training and Employment Center. With the help of federal money, it ran a morning school and afternoon job training program for over one thousand high school dropouts. Three years ago, the House lost most of its trainees and all of its federal funds to Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), which became Boston's official poverty program. Now the House, privately financed, concentrates on employment counseling, job groups for teenagers, and grocery cooperatives...
...training program is the main focus of Alliance's present efforts. Many Roxbury youths are not eligible for the programs run by private industry. They complain that job programs of ABCD (Boston's poverty program) channel trainees into non-profit organizations, where they have little chance for future advancement...
...Alliance member said, "Anybody can learn to mimeograph for an organization. But that's no good for later. ABCD is more job placement than job training...
...from private industry, but it will not accept help from federal agencies or adult political organizations. "Federal programs have too many strings attached," Bell explained. "There are too many stipulations on how to spend money. For example, we need money for transportation, but we can't get it from ABCD...
Romney, a contender for the GOP Presidential nomination in '68, arrived in Boston last night. He is scheduled to visit Brandeis, Boston College, Boston University, and the ABCD community center in Roxbury today, before arriving at the Harvard Faculty Club Library for cocktails...