Office of Economic Opportunity

noun

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

Office of Economic Opportunity

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

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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.

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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.

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County Office of Economic Opportunity, said the county’s Fair Chance Hiring Program tries to match employers with formerly incarcerated workers who have the requisite skills and experience.

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He was later director of Pennsylvania operations for the federal Office of Economic Opportunity and deputy director of its research and development division in Washington. he then joined the nonprofit sector, becoming deputy director of field operations for the National Urban Coalition.

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