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Among the major OEO programs that were created...
...fully one-fourth of the youths drawing salaries came from families well above the poverty line. One indiscreet Youth Corps girl tooled to work in a 1965 Thunderbird, was asked to resign. In Macoupin County, Ill., Democratic officials turned the program into a patronage pie for their children until OEO found out and ordered 83 youngsters dropped. Protested one $9,000-a-year Democrat jobholder whose stepson was bounced: "He comes from a broken home, don't he? Anyway, to the victors goes the spoils. You know what I mean...
...success last summer, the President announced plans to turn Head Start into a year-round program for 350,000 needy children, only to discover that it would have cost three times as much money as was available. The upshot was an administrative nightmare. Communities deluged Washington with applications, and OEO had to reject or pigeonhole scores of them...
...COMMUNITY ACTION. Shriver has called this organization "the boldest of OEO's inventions" and "the business corporation of the new social revolution." As Congress framed the Community Action Program, it was to run local projects "with maximum feasible participation of residents of the areas and members of the groups served." Generally, that has worked out to mean that residents of poor neighborhoods occupy 30% of the seats on city anti-poverty boards. Initially, these representatives were supposed to be elected, but after fewer than 1% of the eligible voters turned out in Los Angeles, 2.7% in Philadelphia...
...Cleveland, slum dwellers organized, marched on city hall and left dead rats on the steps to dramatize their demand for better housing. In Washington's Lafayette Square across from the White House, 90 Mississippi Negroes pitched tents to publicize their own pitiable housing situation. In Syracuse, an OEO-financed group sent jeering squads to heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his 1964 re-election campaign, used poverty funds to bail out demonstrators. When their funds ran out, they sent a 25-man delegation to besiege Shriver for more, and when he turned them down, they went to the White...