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...point, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley became "mightily upset" because the federal poverty project was becoming a "champion grabber and distributor of antipoverty funds." Daley relished that role for himself, and he let Washington know that he did not like the competition. According to Moynihan, Johnson told OEO "to keep community action programs as quiet as possible...
First-Hand Study. To correct this imbalance, a band of determined medical men, supported by funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity, has launched a counterattack on medical poverty in several severely depressed areas. The OEO has allocated $94 million to finance 51 neighborhood health centers, of which 33 are already operating and 18 are being organized. Unless it is caught in a budget squeeze, the OEO will start ten more centers early next year...
...returned to Boston, Gibson suggested that Tufts University, with an expanding program of social medicine, might sponsor a health-center program. Within four weeks, the hyperkinetic Geiger had Tufts' approval and an associate professorship, then obtained funds from the OEO. Says Geiger: "We have known for a long time about the relationships between poverty and health without fully facing up to them. The poor are likelier to be sick. The sick are likelier to be poor. Without intervention, the poor get sicker and the sick get poorer...
...costs, is the most expensive part of medical care. For these 54 families alone, the second-year saving in hospital costs may have been $10,000 to $12,000. Impressed after a tour of Columbia Point, Senator Edward Kennedy was able to get another $50 million added to the OEO appropriation. But no matter how far the OEO expands its health centers, they will not be enough to solve the nationwide medical problems of the poor. The effort to supply health care for maximum social impact will cost many more millions, and perhaps billions...
...anything but obvious to me that a "sincere concern for social justice" necessitates a vote for Hubert Humphrey, whose sincere concern for that war in Vietnam has seriously impaired the domestic programs for social justice in the United States. What ever happened to the Poverty Program, the OEO, and countless other programs promised to the poor and Black Americans by the Johnson-Humphrey Administration? The war is making a mockery of social justice and human rights here at home by eating up all the funds which could and should have been provided for the grave internal problems that face this...