Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opportunity Crusade. Under a G.O.P. antipoverty plan unveiled last week, appropriations would total $315 million less than Johnson wants. The OEO would simply be abolished and all its programs-the Job Corps, VISTA (the domestic Peace Corps), Head Start and the Community Action Program-transferred to other federal agencies, mostly John Gardner's Department of Health, Education and Welfare. As for Antipoverty Czar R. Sargent Shriver, he might, quipped Minnesota's Republican Congressman Albert Quie, become an assistant secretary under Gardner. "Shriver and OEO," said Quie, "have failed." Unless the program is overhauled, echoed New York Republican Charles...
Obvious Need. OEO officials believe that the changes-particularly the one limiting participating of the poor on local boards-will reduce the program's value as a tool for "trying, testing and learning." Even so, they are unlikely to silence opposition from Republicans or Southern Democrats who accuse poverty agencies of fomenting local unrest. When Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark and three members of his poverty subcommittee began hearings in Mississippi last week, for example, Governor Paul Johnson accused "the four socialist-minded Senators" of fostering strife and "pitting the haves against the have-nots...
...daylong tour of the Delta's impoverished Negro communities. Said he, visibly moved by what he had seen: "I didn't know we'd be dealing with starving people." Such testimony-and such obvious need-will unquestionably save most poverty programs. Whether it will save the OEO itself is another question...
...Congress, he outlined programs totaling $25.6 billion to aid the nation's poor-an increase of $3.6 billion-and specifically earmarked $2 billion for Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, combat headquarters for the war on poverty. Predictably, though the figure represents a 25% increase over OEO's current budget, it was nowhere near enough to satisfy everybody. Speaking for the U.S. Conference of Mayors Detroit's Jerome Cavanagh promptly complained that at least $3 billion was needed to do the job properly...
Sometime within the next 18 months, CLAO will have to decide which policy to follow. The normal limit for OEO research and demonstration grants is two years, or until October 1968 for CLAO. After this date, the program will have to seek financing elsewhere, probably from private foundations. Ferren feels that the available funds will probably not be enough to support anticipated case loads from both approaches...