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...about food stamps? the women were asked. "More trouble than they're worth," answered Molly. On the days they are issued, stores jack up prices. Besides, not enough are passed out each month. "By the eleventh and 25th of each month," said Alicia Escalante, an attractive Mexican-American with five children, "we are forced to feed our families rice, beans and other starches. Hidden hunger and periodic starvation appear in at least half the families of our community...
Ironically, this blunt demand on the churches originated from a well-intentioned effort by a liberal interfaith group to draw out black ideas for the economic betterment of urban ghettos. The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO), which includes 23 Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Negro and Mexican-American groups, organized the National Black Economic Development Conference to bring black leaders together for discussions and action on the economic aspects of Black Power. The result was not what IFCO had expected. Forman took over a meeting of the conference in Detroit and called for an end to the capitalistic system...
...teach the first six grades only, while the fourth has become a common seventh-and eighth-grade school fed by the others. Successfully mixed in the new junior high are twelve-and 13-year-olds from four disparate parishes: a black ghetto, a largely middle-class white neighborhood, a Mexican-American neighborhood and a Japanese community where the school enrolls many Buddhists. Similar consolidations have been suggested by a new archdiocesan-education board in Chicago, where ethnic parish lines sometimes place poorly utilized schools within a few blocks of each other...
...total Financial Aid budget that is expected to exceed $1.6 million, the Business School has allocated $300,000 to this program. This year, awards for students averaged $3500 in outright fellowships and $500 in loans. Twenty-six blacks and one Mexican-American participated in the program...
...City, 250 youthful executives are giving up much of their leisure time to help black and Puerto Rican entrepreneurs open businesses in the slums. In California, James Lorenz, a bright young lawyer, has forsworn a more profitable law practice in order to establish a statewide legal-aid service for Mexican-American farm workers...