Proposed Elimination of OEO and Related Legislation: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3641, H.R. 3175, and H.R. 3147 ... |
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ABCD activities administration Angeles antipoverty assistance Bedford-Stuyvesant Boston budget CAA's Chairman Chemung County CHISHOLM clients committee Community Action Agency Community Action program concerned Congress continue corporation Crown Heights cutbacks dollars East Harlem Economic Opportunity Economic Opportunity Act effect elderly employment executive director families Federal funds Federal Government going grams groups HAWKINS Head Start hear housing income involved Jewish Labor lawyers legal services program legislation low-income manpower Mayor ment million Model Cities Model Cities program Nassau County needs Neighborhood Youth Corps Nixon OEO funds OEO programs Office of Economic operation organization participation percent persons planning poor poverty program President problems projects proposed represent revenue sharing senior citizens served social services staff statement STEIGER Steuben County summer Thank tion war on poverty welfare Worcester workers York City
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Page 1094 - What white Americans have never fully understood— but what the Negro can never forget— is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.
Page 1043 - April 30, 1961, from the home of a relative (specified in such section 606 (a)) as a result of a judicial determination to the effect that continuation therein would be contrary to the welfare of such child...
Page 1093 - This is our basic conclusion: Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white— separate and unequal.
Page 881 - States to eliminate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this Nation by opening to everyone the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work, and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.
Page 1094 - First Level of Intensity 1. Police practices 2. Unemployment and underemployment 3. Inadequate housing Second Level of Intensity 4. Inadequate education 5. Poor recreation facilities and programs 6. Ineffectiveness of the political structure and grievance mechanisms Third Level of Intensity 1.
Page 1093 - To pursue our present course will involve the continuing polarization of the American community and ultimately the destruction of basic democratic values.
Page 1094 - This alternative will require a commitment to national action —compassionate, massive, and sustained, backed by the resources of the most powerful and the richest nation on this earth.
Page 1094 - To mount programs on a scale equal to the dimension of the problems, To aim these programs for high impact in the immediate future in order to close the gap between promise and performance, To undertake new initiatives and experiments that can change the system of failure and frustration that now dominates the ghetto and weakens our society.
Page 881 - Legal Services" program to further the cause of justice among persons living in poverty by mobilizing the assistance of lawyers and legal institutions and by providing legal advice, legal representation, legal counseling, education in legal matters, and other appropriate legal services.
Page 881 - ... (3) the greater use, subject to adequate evaluation, of new types of services and innovative approaches in attacking causes of poverty...