Launching the war on poverty : an oral history

Launching the war on poverty an oral history

Head Start, Job Corps, Foster Grandparents, College Work-Study, VISTA, Community Action, and the Legal Services Corporation are familiar programs, but their tumultuous beginning has been largely forgotten. Conceived amid the daring idealism of the 1960s, these programs originated as weapons in Lyndo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gillette, Michael L. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 2010.
Edición:2nd ed
Colección:The Oxford oral history series.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31320168*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Camelot confronts the culture of poverty
  • The war on poverty task force
  • Creating the community action program
  • Employment versus poverty
  • Rural programs
  • The enactment of poverty legislation
  • The office of economic opportunity: "the most action in town"
  • The job corps
  • The community action program
  • An early success: Project Head Start
  • Advocates for the poor : VISTA and the legal services program
  • Delegated programs
  • Challenges to Head Start
  • The job corps under siege
  • "Keeping the trash in one pile": legislative battles
  • OEO's struggle to endure
  • Epilogue and assessments.

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