Office of Economic Opportunity

noun

a former name of the Community Services Administration. Abbreviation: OEO

Words nearby Office of Economic Opportunity

officeholder, office hours, office junior, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Office of Defense Transportation, Office of Economic Opportunity, Office of Price Administration, Office of Technology Assessment, Office of War Information, office park, officer

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Cultural definitions for Office of Economic Opportunity

Office of Economic Opportunity

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.

单词	office of economic opportunity
释义	Office of Economic Opportunity noun a former name of the Community Services Administration. Abbreviation: OEO Words nearby Office of Economic Opportunity officeholder, office hours, office junior, Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, Office of Defense Transportation, Office of Economic Opportunity, Office of Price Administration, Office of Technology Assessment, Office of War Information, office park, officer Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Cultural definitions for Office of Economic Opportunity Office of Economic Opportunity 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. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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