Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Friday night and Saturday, some of America's foremost liberal economists will come to Harvard to drum up support for their last and biggest hope, The Freedom Budget...
...Budget is the economic flower of the old civil rights movement. It is outlined in an 84-page red, white, and blue pamphlet entitled "Budgeting our resources, 1966-1975, to achieve Freedom from Want." The study was directed by Bayard Rustin, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and organizer of the red, white, and blue 1963 March on Washington...
...Freedom Budget maintains the potential is virtually unlimited. Its calculations prove beyond reasonable liberal doubt, with the help of former Economic Council Chairman Leon Keyserling and $185 billion of spending, that guaranteed employment and minimum yearly salary could indeed end poverty by 1975. The means: a huge public works program, the apothesis of New Dealism...
Many more radical reformers disagree that eliminating poverty through The Budget will cause a qualitative change in American life. "It's irrelevant," says Mark Dyen '70, co-chairman of Harvard SDS. "It doesn't get at the real issues. Do you really believe that getting the poor more money is going to give them more of a say in their own environment...
Good savs that he was once offered CCA endorsement but decided to turn it down. He lost no time enraging CCA members, particularly Duehay, by voting in February for the budget cuts. Duehay issued a blistering statement on the "irregularities" of the cuts. He also implied that they were part of a deal by which Mavor Haves could keep the school budget below $7.5 million and one of the three Committeemen--presumably Good--would get to name the third Assistant Superintendent of Schools, a new administrative position created at the same meeting...