Word: oeo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, the Administration has been caught in angry crossfire between warring city factions, and Poverty Czar Shriver is under pressure from President Johnson to calm the storm. Two weeks ago, Shriver killed a controversial research project that OEO had financed at Syracuse University. The program, aimed at encouraging the poor to promote their own interests more vigorously, was canceled after federal funds were used 1) to transport mobs to heckle Republican Mayor William Walsh during his re-election campaign, and 2) to bail demonstrators out of jail. Declared Walsh: "This program from its inception has tried to promote class warfare...
Last week the problems of the anti-poverty program seemed to be increasing rather than diminishing. In Johnston, R.I., it turned out that the 91 youths enrolled in an anti-poverty program came from families whose incomes average $5,004, far above the $2,400 ceiling set by OEO. Five members of the Colorado Springs anti-poverty governing body were found to have police records for such offenses as sodomy, escape from a mental institution, burglary, operation of a disorderly house, and suspected assault with intent to commit murder. In Manhattan, Negro officials of HARYOU-ACT,* which has received...
...representatives of "the poor" on his anti-poverty board, arguing that private citizens should not be deputed to spend public money−though virtually every other major U.S. city had adopted this approach. Yorty later retreated, consented to an expanded board, including some representatives of private groups. Yet, though OEO has pumped $17 million into the city for various programs, it has held up another $20 million for projects that would create desperately needed job opportunities for the city's unemployed Negroes...
...OEO Director Sargent Shriver charged last week that while 523 towns and counties have organized effective anti-poverty programs, Los Angeles is the only major city in the U.S. that has not done so. Federal officials also claimed that Yorty was one of only two big-city mayors (the other: Chicago's Richard Daley) who spurned a secret offer of special federal aid earlier this year to help forestall summer riots−even though 34% of L.A.'s Negro youths were unemployed.. In Harlem, by contrast, the Federal Government's $4,000,000 program to make...
POVERTY PROGRAM. Increases the funds for the Office of Economic Opportunity by more than 100%, to $1.9 billion, and allows the OEO director to overrule Governors' vetoes of federal decisions to locate certain anti-poverty activities in their states...