Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great pleasure for me to participate in this meeting of the Urban League. Your organization, more than any other, has labored to bring the Negro to economic equality. Today your efforts are meeting a more sympathetic response from American business than before. Attitudes are changing rapidly. The white collar and the managerial ranks of our large enterprises at las tare opening up. The demand for qualified Negroes all of a sudden exceeds the number you are able to find. And Whitney Young's radical call of just two years ago, asking American business not just to be an equal opportunity...
...economist. I cannot advise the Urban League how to enlist greater employer cooperation or how to speed the training of Negroes for better jobs. Instead, at this point of break-through in job opuportunities let me give you an economist's perspective, some qutantitative indication of the task to be met before economic equality can be a reality...
...dispartities has not yet been fully identified. The great increase in numbers is certainly one factor. In June of this year, almost 2 million more teenagers were working than three years earlier, including an extra 163,000 Negro teenagers. And the continued heavy migration of Negroes from rural to urban areas converts the disguised unemployment of low productivity agricultural labor into the open unemployment of the city...
...Federal Government has forged a mighty weapon in this cause. The resources it makes available to the schools which educate the children of the poor--including the potentially massive aid to the Southern schools which still educate half of all Negro children, as well as its aid to urban slum schools--should, if effectively employed, cut the drop-out rate. We must assure that these resources are really used effectively, and do not merely become a substitute for local effort, or simply vanish in higher costs When Federal budget resources again become available in greater abundance, expansion of this...
...similar study of the housing and urban renewal structure was undertaken by Boston's project builder Edward Logue, but its preliminary recommendations met with insurmountable opposition from city bureaucracies that do not want to be reorganized out of existence. A third study, now in progress, will explore the feasibility of introducing to the city government a system of program budgeting similar to that of the federal Defense Department...