Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave the Office of Economic Opportunity command of ten campaigns* to rescue the nation from want. Almost from the start, however, the antipoverty warriors have been fighting a losing battle on Capitol Hill. By now, a large segment of the Congress seems determined to divest the OEO of its generalship...
Whatever praise OEO receives, its defeats-admittedly not infrequent-reap salvos of abuse. Stung by growing senatorial criticism, the agency last week issued an upbeat report claiming that nearly 3,000,000 Americans-1,000,000 of them nonwhite-climbed out of poverty in 1967. In the War on Poverty's first three years, said the report, "1,700,000 whites and more than 700,000 nonwhites a year crossed the threshold compared with an average of 840,000 whites and 80,000 nonwhites each year in 1959-64." The statistics, while impressive, may prove porous armor for OEO...
Pinched Budget. Head Start administrators see their problem in the fact that under HEW the individual states would control the program and possibly curtail its scope. Traditional support for state control is one reason for the longstanding Republican opposition to OEO. When Head Start proved to be not only a resounding success but also a catalyst for integration, Southern Democrats joined the opposition. Now OEO fears that segregationists would deliberately downgrade the program in the South...
...House of Representatives may thwart the Senate plan. Kentucky Congressman Carl Perkins says that OEO's future will be determined "by its good works between now and next year." Fearing the worst, OEO personnel are leaving the agency at record rates. Sargent Shriver's successor, Bertrand M. Harding, has adopted a conciliatory tone toward Congress but has thus far failed to placate his foes. Next year's budget is even more pinched than the outlays that Shriver fought to increase. Yet even OEO's future is not the key issue The agency's original mandate...
...question was how to deal with juvenile gangs, by force or by conversion. "You should be studying this question, not badgering sincere, dedicated clerics who try only to help their deprived fellow man," said he, but McClellan gaveled him down. Lost in the furor was any realistic evaluation of OEO's attempts to tame the Rangers...