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The United States Office of Economic Opportunity was a division of the Executive Branch of the United States government concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs relative to the provision of opportunities for economic advancement.
The newly formed UnitedStatesOffice of EconomicOpportunity adopted the lower of the Orshansky poverty thresholds for statistical, planning and budgetary purposes in May 1965.
Historic and ongoing racism: The gross disparities among impoverished people in the UnitedStates along racial lines has lead many to believe that historic and/or ongoing racism is responsible for much of the poverty in the UnitedStates today.
The UnitedStatesOffice of EconomicOpportunity was a division of the Executive Branch of the UnitedStates government concerned with overall planning, promoting, and administering programs relative to the provision of opportunities for economic advancement.
Under President Nixon's administration, the Office was headed by Donald Rumsfeld.
President Nixon abolished the Office in 1974, in his last year as president.
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