Office of Economic Opportunity

American  

noun

1. a former name of the Community Services Administration. OEO

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Office of Economic Opportunity Cultural  

1. A federal agency, founded in the 1960s as part of the War on Poverty conducted by President Lyndon Johnson. The OEO distributed federal money to a variety of local programs designed to promote educational opportunities and job training among the poor and to provide legal services for the poor. The OEO was abolished in the middle 1970s, and its programs have been curtailed or scattered among other federal agencies, particularly the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Example Sentences

Cheney next became a protégé of Donald Rumsfeld, then the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025

President Richard Nixon had also sought to withhold funds from other projects, such as the Office of Economic Opportunity and water pollution control projects.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2024

This group also tended to stay in their jobs longer, while being at least as productive as their peers, the county Office of Economic Opportunity says.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Impressed with his performance, President Nixon in 1969 asked Mr. Rumsfeld to run the Office of Economic Opportunity, the federal antipoverty agency.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

His appointment as deputy director of the Office of Economic Opportunity was withdrawn as a result of criticism in the House.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.