Programs, Correspondence, 1968, January-July (1968)

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-65- efforts of all of the resources we can muster to achieve that. What 0E0 set out to do was to marshal the re¬ sources of the country in support of their efforts, since no single agency of the government has the total capability it requires to relate meaningfully to the problems of between twenty or thirty million people living in poverty in the country. The recent target estimate, in time, to eliminate poverty in the nation, proposed by Mr. Shriver, was ten years. That reasoning is based on the be¬ lief that our institutions will respond to that challenge and take up their share of the tasks that lie before us. What we have not learned well enough is how to in¬ volve those resources to the fullest extent of their capability. That part of the job still remains to be done. Should the 0E0 create a unilateral communications capability, to be used only by OEO-related agencies? We suggest that such an investment is dispropor¬ tionate, and would utilize funds badly needed in