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Office of Economic Opportunity
United States government
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establishment
- In United States: Health and welfare
Between 1964 and 1969 the Office of Economic Opportunity began a number of programs, including the Head Start program for preschool children, the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and the Teacher Corps. Responding to allegations of abuse in the country’s welfare system and charges that it encouraged dependency, the federal government introduced…
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War on Poverty
- In War on Poverty
The act created the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), which provided funds for vocational training, created Job Corps to train youths in conservation camps and urban centres, and established VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), a domestic counterpart to the Peace Corps, and Head Start
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