Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard work, to leave it behind. Included in the attack on poverty was a job-training program for the unemployed, the provision of part-time jobs for teenagers, community anti-poverty projects, loans to low-income farmers and businessmen and a domestic peace corps. An Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) was established to coordinate these programs...
...aspect of OEO's program went further, affording the potential for eliminating the rut altogether. The Legal Services Program, begun in 1965 with offices in only 14 communities, developed over the next decade into a broad-based force for social change, operating out of 900 neighborhood offices and employing over 2500 lawyers. When established groups like the American Bar Association gave their early approval to the program, they were unaware of the implications legal aid for the poor had for the American legal system. They supported a limited program whereby the impoverished would receive free counsel for individual problems such...
With the advent of the Nixon administration, attacks on OEO-funded attorneys took on more threatening forms. In 1970 Assistant Atty. Gen. William Ruckelshaus accused legal services lawyers of filing "politically motivated" lawsuits aimed at embarrassing the Nixon administration. He charged that some of the agencies were using the courts "as a method for confrontation" with the establishment...
...Center for Law and Education, acts as counsel all over the United States for poor people participating in education-law cases. Unfortunately, legal services for the poor rates low priority on the federal budget, and the future of CLE's grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) remains uncertain...
Joseph Levin Jr., an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, first filed a $1,000,000 damage suit for the Relfs against the family planning center and OEO officials. Then he upped it to $5,000,000 and named John W. Dean III and John D. Ehrlichman as co-defendants on the ground that they had been negligent in failing to speed the issuing of guidelines that could have prevented the operations on the girls...