Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...VISTA continues to require a full year of service or none at all, it will waste immense amounts of manpower and enthusiasm that might be brought to bear on local poverty problems. The War on Poverty will not become a real cause in America until the OEO allows as many people to take part in its work as there are jobs to do. Once VISTA outgrows its experimental stages, it should back up its regular troops with a reserve army of part-time volunteers...
...sponsoring part-time unpaid workers in addition to its regular volunteers, VISTA could claim an enormous cache of willing manpower for the OEO's integrated assault on poverty, while generating a spirit of national cooperation in the War on Poverty. (Political activity need not be the only kind of practical public service for adults in and out of college.) In so doing, VISTA would not replace organizations like Philips Brooks, any more than it would replace the Boys' Club or the Salvation Army. Instead it would collaborate with them, and strengthen them. Affiliation with a national program like VISTA would...