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...competing programs. Some 200 federal projects administered by 21 federal agencies are involved in the poverty war. In the area of manpower and development alone, seven federal departments have their own programs. When it wrote the poverty bill, Congress had a chance to streamline the machinery and thereby spare Shriver some of the interdepartmental bickering that has plagued him. But Congress muffed the opportunity-in part because of Lyndon Johnson's whipcracking impatience to get on with the Great Society...
...school youths from 16 to 21, the Job Corps has 25,609 trainees (about 50% Negro) at 100 centers. The cost through June 30: $493 million. In many ways it is the bad boy-and occasionally the bad girl -of the poverty program, since its wards, as Shriver notes, are "dropouts from society before we get them. If we save three out of four, or two out of three, that's a miracle right there." Many arrive as complete illiterates; 79% have never seen a doctor, 85% a dentist. One in six has been rejected as unfit for military...
...clubs for juvenile delinquents," noted that the cost of training the men and women in several dozen occupations, from automobile repairs and underwater welding to cosmetology and nursing, came to $9,945 a year-more than the cost of sending a student to college. On the other hand, notes Shriver, it costs taxpayers some $100,000 to keep a man on relief for a lifetime. Since 1,500 Job Corps graduates have found jobs, and cooperating firms have a "stockpile" of 10,000 jobs awaiting future grads, he figures that the investment is worthwhile...
...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...
...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 House in a vain attempt to see Lyndon Johnson. Some of the same people were in the audience last month when Shriver, addressing a convention of an independent group called the Citizens Crusade Against Poverty, was shouted...