HEARINGSAUG2 4

BEFORE THE

1965

SELECT SUBCOMMITORY ON POVERTY.

OF THE

2. Congress, Senate. COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE.
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1759

CARD DIVISION

A BILL TO EXPAND THE WAR ON POVERTY AND ENHANCE
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMS UNDER THE
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964

L369
1965

R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., Director, Office of Economic Opportunity.

Christopher Weeks, Deputy Director of the Job Corps..

R. Sargent Shriver-Resumed__

Theodore Berry, Assistant Director for Community Action Programs-

Donald M. Baker, general counsel --

Lisle C. Carter, Assistant Director for Interagency Operations_

William P. Kelly, Assistant Director for Management..

18

35

124, 132, 175, 184

130

132

172

175

183

George Arnstein, program officer, Neighborhood Youth Corps.--

JUNE 29, 1965

Hon. George Smathers, a U.S. Senator from the State of Florida_

Eric Cox, representing the Metropolitan Athletic Association of Wash-

ington, D.Ĉ..

193

Dr. Verl Lewis, dean of the School of Social Work, the University of

Maryland.

205

232

Dr. Reginald A. Hawkins, civil rights and political leader, Charlotte, N.C.

Miss Antonio Pantoja, executive director, Puerto Rican Forum, New

York, N.Y.

Mrs. Dorothy Orr, executive director, Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-in-

Action, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Prof. Richard Cloward, New York School of Social Work, New York, N. Y.

STATEMENTS

Arnstein, George, program officer, Neighborhood Youth Corps__

Baker, Donald M., general consul..

Berry, Theodore, Assistant Director for Community Action Programs.

Biemiller, Andrew J., director, department of legislation, American

Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations, prepared

statement..

Carter, Lisle C., Assistant Director for Interagency Operations.

Cloward, Prof. Richard, New York School of Social Work, New York,

N.Y

Cox, Eric, representing the Metropolitan Athletic Association of Wash-

ington, D.C.

238

246

255

262

183

132

130

277

172

262

205

238

Hawkins, Dr. Reginald A., civil rights and political leader, Charlotte, N.C.

Kelly, William P., Assistant Director for Management---

175

Lewis, Dr. Verl, dean of the School of Social Work, the University of

Maryland__

232

Prepared statement_

234

Orr, Mrs. Dorothy, executive director, Bedford-Stuyvesant Youth-in-

Action, Brooklyn, N.Y..

255

Pantoja, Miss Antonio, executive director, Puerto Rican Forum, New

York, N.Y.

246

Prepared statement.

253

Shipe, J. Orrin, managing editor, CUNA International, Inc., prepared

statement_

280

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