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[John Tower Speech to Public Affairs Forum, Indiana State College about Poverty in America, Feb. 15, 1965] (open access)

[John Tower Speech to Public Affairs Forum, Indiana State College about Poverty in America, Feb. 15, 1965]

Speech; Antipoverty programs; Decline of poverty; How to measure poverty; Unemployment as a result of lack of skill, lack of ability, lack of education and/or lack of motivation; Salary costs for hiring antipoverty officials and social workers as part of the budget; Office of Economic Opportunity; Vocational and literacy training; Federal bureaucracy versus individual responsibility.
Date: February 18, 1965
Creator: Tower, John G. (John Goodwin), 1925-1991
System: The Portal to Texas History