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

When photographer Peter Turnley was just 20 years old, an acquaintance from the California Office of Economic Opportunity reached out to him with a question.

From Los Angeles Times

She explained to me that the Office of Economic Opportunity needed to make a report that underlined its efforts in trying to help the the poor of California, and that they they wanted to use these photographs as a way to illustrate that report.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Later, he was recruited by the federal Office of Economic Opportunity — an outgrowth of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty — to open family planning clinics around the country, which gave him his first exposure to the vitriolic politics around reproductive rights.

From Los Angeles Times