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...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...
...have substantially increased Harvard's Upbound budget would have meant less youngsters in Upward Bound somewhere else where OEO has been much less responsive than we have been in the Boston area...
...Office of Economic Opportunity has resolved to use the $2.5 million appropriations increase it received for Upward Bound from Congress to begin new programs, instead of increasing the effectiveness of those already in existence. Many of these programs, like the one in Cambridge, are barely hanging on. But OEO is under intense pressure to spread funds thin and make the President's War on Poverty visible in more constituencies...
Antipoverty officials will decide within the next two weeks whether to grant Haravrd Upward Bound a compromise request. Administrators at the School of Education insist that the program will continue, with undiminished energy and enthusiasm, even if OEO rejects the proposal. But it will remain, for another year at least, merely a stab in the dark...