3 20 66 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/543032d59765c6403640f394417eab94.pdf e8c565a1808f65e13fc0c8f163767ffc Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. ! December 11, 1967 MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Steering Committee Urban Coalition FROM: John Gunther, U. S. Conference of Mayors Chairman, Working Committee on Organization SUBJECT: T'ne Urban Coalition in 1968 Your Working Com.rnittee on Organi zation met and based on that meeting and subsequent discussions with individual members of the Working Committee, I submit this report. 1. The Urban Coalition should continue its efforts toward assuring an equitable share of the benefits fro m the nation's economy for the residents of our central cities. The Urban Coalition should be responsive to but independent of the individual elements of it. The Coalition should seek to facilitate the implementation of policies developed by it and others and concurred in by the Coalition. Areas of substantive concern should be education, employment, and housing, including related community facilities and services. The Coalition should encourage the formation of local coalitions to develop and implement plans for the solution of community problems. The National Coalition, through local coalitions and by direct action, should support policies to order private and public priorities to meet the pressing and long neglected needs of the central cities. 2. The Stee ring Committee is the governing body of the Coalition and it may add to its number as it deems appropriate. The Steering Committee shall select its chairman or co-chairmen from its members and shall determine the substance of the areas of the Coalition activities, establish a budget and employ a National Coordinator. 3. There shall be a Council of Local Coalitions. This Council will be made u p of t wo representatives from each local coalition and it shall select two of its members to serve on the national Steering Committee . The Council will serve in an advisory capacity to the Steering Committee . . �2 4. Each member of the Steer i n g Committ ee may designate an individual to repr esent him on the Wor king Com.mittee. The Working Committee shall select a chairman or co-chairman from its members, and may establish committees as needed to oversee the impleme ntation of decisions by the Steering Committee, and prepare proposals fo r the consideration of the Steering Committee. ·5. Areas of Coalition activity will be explored in depth by task forces established by the Steering Committee and responsible to the Steering Committee. 6. The Coalition sha ll employ such staff as its budgeted resources permit. The staff will b e under the direction of a National Coordinator who may be retained and serv e at the pleasure of the Steering Committee. The staff will provide services as necessary to the Steering Committee, the Council of Local Coalitions, the task forces and the Working Committee. 7. Staffing and funding should be planned on a one-year basis; and prior to Janu a ry l, 196~ a comprehensive review should be made to asses progress toward the objectives of the Urban Coalition and to make such recommendatiomas may be appropriate for its continuation. 0 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document December 11, 1967 MEMORANDUM TOs Members of the Steering Committee Urban Coalition FROM: John Gunther, U. S. Conference of Mayors Chairman, Working Committee on Organization SUBJECT: The Urban Coalition in 1968 Your Working Committee on Organization met and based on that meeting and subsequent discussions with individual members of the Working Committee, I submit this report. 1. The Urban Coalition should q@mntinue its efforts toward assur- ing an equitable share of the benefits from the nation's economy for the residents of our central cities. The Urban Coalition should be responsive to but independent of the individual elements of it. The Coalition should seek to facilitate the implementation of policies developed by it and others and con- curred in by the Coalition. Areas of substantive concern should be education, employment, and housing, including related community facilities and services. The Coalition should encourage the formation of local coalitions to develop and implement plans for the solution of community problems. The National Coalition, through local coalitions and by direct action, should support policies to order private and public priorities to meet the pressing and long neglected needs of the central cities. 2. The Steering Committee is the governing body of the Coalition and it may add to its number as it deems appropriate. The Steering Committee shall select its chairman or co-chairmen from its members and shall determine the substance of the areas of the Coalition activities, establish a budget and employ a National Coordinator. 3. There shall be a Council of Local Coalitions. This Council will be made up of two representatives from each local coalition and it shall select two of its members to serve on the national Steering Committee. The Council will serve in an advisory capacity to the Steering Committee. 4. Each member of the Steering Committee may designate an individual to represent him on the Working Committee. The Working Committee shall select a chairman or co-chairman from its members, and may establish committees as needed to oversee the implementation of decisions by the Steering Committee, and pre- pare proposals for the consideration of the Steering Committee. 5. Areas of Coalition activity will be explored in depth by task forces established by the Steering Committee and responsible to the Steering Committee. 6. The Coalition shall employ such staff as its budgeted resources permit. The staff will be under the direction of a National Coordinator who may be retained and serve at the pleasure of the Steering Committee. The staff will provide services as necessary to the Steering Committee, the Council of Local Coalitions, the task forces and the Working Committee.° 7. Staffing and funding should be planned on a one-year basis; and prior to January 1, 1969, a comprehensive review should be made to asses progress toward the objectives of the Urban Coalition and to make such recommendations as may be appropriate for its continu- ation.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 40 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/5c45534262673e0529cb1d35c8ac1d25.pdf 2c17db55669c6efb220151ba2ab04a96 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. December 11, 1967 .MEMORA1'TDUM TO: Members of the Steering Committee Urban Coalition FROM: John Gunther, U. S. Conference of Mayors Chairma n, Working Committee on Organization SUBJECT: The Urban Coalition in 1968 Your Working Committee on Organization met and based on that meeting and subsequent discussions with individual members of the Working Committee, I submit this report_. 1. The Urban Coalition should continue its efforts toward assuring an equitable shar e of the benefits from the nation's economy for the re s idents of our central cities. The Urban Coalition should be responsive to but independent of the individual elements of it. The Coalition should seek to facilitate the implementation of policies developed by it and others and concurred in by the Coalition. Area s of substantive concern should be education, employme nt, and housing, including related community faciliti e s and service s. The Coalition should encourage the formation of local c8alitions to develop and implement plans for the solution of communi~y problems. The National Coalition, through local coalitions and by direct action, shoul§ support policies to order private and public priorities to meet the pressing and long n e gle cted needs of the central cities. 2. The Steering Committee is the governing body of the Coalition and i t may add to its number as it deems appropriate. The Steering Committee shall select its chairman or co-chairme n from its me mber s and shall d e termine· the subs tance of the areas of the Coaliti on activitie s, establish a budget and employ a National Coor d i n ator . 3. There shall be a Council of Loca l Coa litions . This Council will b e made u p of two r epresentative s f r om each loca l coa lition and i t s h a ll se l ect two of its members to serve on the n ationa l Steering Committ ee. The Coun c i l will serv e i n an a d vis ory capacity to the Steering Committee. �2 4. Each member of the Steering Committee may designate an individual to repres ent him on the Working Committee. The Working Committee shall select a chairman or co-chairman from its memb er s, and may establish committees as needed to oversee the implementation of decisions by the Ste ering Committee, and prepare proposals for the consider ation of the Steer ing Committee. 5. Areas of Coalition activity will be explored in depth by task forces established by the Steering Committee and responsible to the Steering Committee. 6. The Coal ition shall employ such staff as its budgeted resources permit. The staff will be under the direction of a National Coordinator who may be retained and serve at the pleasure of the Steering Com.mittee. The staff will provide services as necessary to the Steering Committee, the Council of Local Coalitions, the task forc es and the Working Committee. 7. Staffing and funding should be planned on a one -year bas is; and prior to January 1, 196~ a comprehensive review should be made to asses progress towar d the objectives of the Urban Coalition and to make such recommendatiorna s may b e appropriate for its continuation. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document December 11, 1967 MEMORANDUM wh Members of the Steering Committee Urban Coalition FROM: John Gunther, U. S. Conference of Mayors Chairman, Working Committee on Organization SUBJECT: The Urban Coalition in 1968 Your Working Committee on Organization met and based on that meeting and subsequent discussions with individual members of the Working Committee, I submit this report. 1. The Urban Coalition should continue its efforts toward assur- ing an equitable share of the benefits from the nation's economy for the residents of our central cities. The Urban Coalition should be responsive to but independent of the individual elements of it. The Coalition should seek to facilitate the implementation of policies developed by it and others and con- curred in by the Coalition. Areas of substantive concern should be education, employment, and housing, including related community facilities and services. The Coalition should encourage the formation of local coalitions to develop and implement plans for the solution of community problems. The National Coalition, through local coalitions and by direct action, should support policies to order private and public priorities to meet the pressing and long neglected needs of the central cities. 2. The Steering Committee is the governing body of the Coalition and it may add to its number as it deems appropriate. The Steering Committee shall select its chairman or co-chairmen from its members and shall determine the substance of the areas of the Coalition activities, establish a budget and employ a National Coordinator. 3. There shall be a Council of Local Coalitions. This Council will be made up of two representatives from each local coalition and it shall select two of its members to serve on the national Steering Committee. The Council will serve in an advisory capacity to the Steering Committee. 4, Each member of the Steering Committee may designate an individual to represent him on the Working Committee. The Working Committee shall select a chairman or co-chairman from its _ members, and may establish committees as needed to oversee the implementation of decisions by the Steering Committee, and pre- pare proposals for the consideration of the Steering Committee. 5. Areas of Coalition activity will be explored in depth by task forces established by the Steering Committee and responsible to the Steering Committee. 6. The Coalition shall employ such staff as its budgeted resources permit. The staff will be under the direction of a National Coordinator who may be retained and serve at the pleasure of the Steering Committee. The staff will provide services as necessary to the Steering Committee, the Council of Local Coalitions, the task forces and the Working Committee. 7. ‘Staffing and funding should be planned on a one-year basis; and prior to January 1, 1969, a comprehensive review should be made to asses progress toward the objectives of the Urban Coalition and to make such recommendatiors as may be appropriate for its continu- ation.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 41 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/93f323b191c00aa271e68e43e2e4dab0.pdf 3f64d00bcb552625a71a9299a47a5f2b Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. December 11, 1967 MEMORAJ:I.J7)UM TO: Members of the Stee ring Committee Urban Coalition FROM: John Gunthe r, U.S. Conference of Mayors Chairma n, Wor king Committe e on 0-£gani z ation SUBJECT: The Urban Coa lition in 1968 Your Wor kin g Committee on Organization met and based on that meeting and subsequent discussions with individual members of the Working Committee, I submit this report. 1. The Urban Coalition should continue its efforts toward assuring an equitable share of the b e nefits from the nation's economy for the r es ide nts of our centr al cities. The Urban Coalition should be responsive to but independent of the individual elements of it. The Coalition should seek to facilitate the · implementation of policies develope d by it and others and concurred in b y the Coalition. Areas of substantive concern should be education, emp loyme nt, and h o using, including relate d community faciliti es and service s. The Coa lition should encour age the formation of local coalitions to d e velop and implement plans for the solution of community problems. ThP. National Coalition, through local coalitions and by direct action, should support policies to order private and public priorities to meet the pressing and long negle cted n eeds o f the centra l cities. 2. The Steering Committee is the governing body of the Coalition and it may add to its number as it deems appropriate. The Steering Committee shall select its chairman or co-chairmen from its membe r s and shall d e t e rmine the substance of the area s of the Coaliti on activities , es t ablish a budge t and e mploy a National Coor dina t or . 3. The re sha l l be a Council of Loca l Coalition s . This Council will b e made u p o f t wo r epr esentatives fr om each loca l coa l i tion and it sha ll se l e ct t wo o f i t s members to serve on the nat i o nal Steering Committe e. The Council wi ll s e rve in an advisory capacity t o the Steering Committee . . . ., �2 4. Each member of the Stee ring Committee may designate an individual to represe nt him on the Wor king Committee. The Working Committee shall select a chairman or co-chairman from its members, and may establish committees as needed to oversee the implementation of decisions by the Steering Committee, and prepare proposals for the consideration of the Steering Committee. 5. Areas of Coalition activity will be explored in depth by task forces established by the Steering Committee and responsible to the Steering Committee. 6. The Coalition sha ll employ such staff as its budgeted resources permit. The staff will b e under the direction of a National Coordinator who may be retained and serve at the pleasure of the Steering Committee. The staff will provide services as necessary to the Steering Committee, the Council of Local Coalitions, the task forces and the Working Committee. 7. Staffing and funding should b e planned on a one -yea r basis~ and prior to January 1, 196~ a comprehensive review should be made to asses progress toward the objectives of the Urban Coalition and to make such recommendatioraas may be appropriate for its continuation. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document December 11, 1967 MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Steering Committee Urban Coalition FROM: John Gunther, U. S. Conference of Mayors Chairman, Working Committee on Organization SUBJECT: The Urban Coalition in 1968 Your Working Committee on Organization met and based on that meeting and subsequent discussions with individual members of the Working Committee, I submit this report. l. The Urban Coalition should ontinue its efforts toward assur- ing an equitable share of the benefits from the nation's economy for the residents of our central cities. The Urban Coalition should be responsive to but independent of the individual elements of it. The Coalition should seek to facilitate the implementation of policies developed by it and others and con- curred in by the Coalition. Areas of substantive concern should be education, employment, and housing, including related community facilities and services. The Coalition should encourage the formation of local coalitions to develop and implement plans for the solution of community problems. The National Coalition, through local coalitions and by direct action, should support policies to order private and public priorities to meet the pressing and long neglected needs of the central cities. 2. The Steering Committee is the governing body of the Coalition and it may add to its number as it deems appropriate. The Steering Committee shall select its chairman or co-chairmen from its members and shall determine the substance of the areas of the Coalition activities, establish a budget and employ a National Coordinator. 3. There shall be a Council of Local Coalitions. This Council will be made up of two representatives from each local coalition and it shall select two of its members to serve on the national Steering Committee. The Council will serve in an advisory capacity to the Steering Committee. 4. Each member of the Steering Committee may designate an individual to represent him on the Working Committee. The Working Committee shall select a chairman or co-chairman from its members, and may establish committees as needed to oversee the implementation of decisions by the Steering Committee, and pre- pare proposals for the consideration of the Steering Committee. 5. Areas of Coalition activity will be explored in depth by task forces established by the Steering Committee and responsible to the Steering Committee. 6. The Coalition shall employ such staff as its budgeted resources permit. The staff will be under the direction of a National Coordinator who may be retained and serve at the pleasure of the Steering Committee. The staff will provide services as necessary to the Steering Committee, the Council of Local Coalitions, the task forces and the Working Committee. 7. Staffing and funding should be planned on a one-year basis; and prior to January 1, 1969, a comprehensive review should be made to asses progress toward the objectives of the Urban Coalition and to make such recommendations as may be appropriate for its continu- ation.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 42 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/52e2990f7ab59befbbc322ded48afa14.pdf 40b85d8d8fd3a26c68042656cf8db999 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. (2) make a strong plea for job opportunities for all Americans through a combination of private and public pr ograms. We though·c you would be interested in comparing the President's statement with the goal contained in the Urban Coalition's Statement of Principles adopted at the Emergency Convocation: Coalition Goal The President There are some half million unemployed, hard-core unemployed, in our principal cities. We just have to go and find jobs for them . I am going to cal l in the businessmen of America and say one of t wo things have t o h appen: You have to help me go out and find jobs for these people, or we are going to have to find jobs in the Government f or them and offer every one of them a job. I think that is one thing that cou ld be done . I think that will have to be done, as expensiv e as it is . Government and business must accept responsibility -to provide all Americans with opport unity to earn an adequate income. Private industry must greatly accelerate its efforts to recruit, train, and hire the hard-core unemployed . When the pr ivate sector is unable to provide employment to those who are b oth able and willing to work, then in a free society the government must of n e c e ssity assume the responsibility and act as the employer of last resort or must assure adequate i ncome for those who are unable to work. The pre ss interpr eted the President's sta tement as an important new p o licy p o s ition on the gover nment's r esponsibilit y . At a press conference the f ollowing day, Rep . Carl D. Perkins (Ky. ), chairman of the House Educ ation a n d Labor Committee said he would s uppor t whatever bill i n the field o f employment the Pres i d ent sen d s to Congr e s s next year. Providing jobs for tho s e wh o c a n't find private employment, he said, "is the proper r ole f or g ov ernment". EDUCATI ONAL DIS PARI TIES Despite bad weather that clo sed the Detroit airport for s e vera l hours on December 18, seven members o f the Educational Disparities Ta s k Force were able to get tog ether for a schedu led meeting. They held a spirited discussion of t h e problems which exist in thi s a r e a a n d began concentration on tho s e which they felt the Coalition could effectively combat. The Ta sk Force will meet again at 2:30 p.m. on January 8 at the Mayflower Ho tel in Washington. LOCAL COALITIONS Encouragement and assistance in the formation of local urban coalitions continues to receive high priority. During December Washington �(3) D. C., Boston, Baltimore, Plainfield , N. J., Stanford and Bridgeport, Connecticut announced plans for local coalitions. Washington Mayor Walter E . Washington said in a public announcement that citizens have called for the o r ganization of a local coalition "in terms of urgency" generated by the August Emergency Convocation. He emphasized that the local effort must have the support and participation of the Virginia and Maryland suburbs. The nex t regional mobilization conference will be held in New York City on January 12 -- at New York University ' s Loeb Center. EQUAL HOUSING Plans are in progress for a National Action Session on Equal Housing Opportunities to be held in Chicago at the Conrad Hilton Hotel on January 18. The Task Force has concentrated on the completion of program development papers. COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC SUPPORT Two we ll-i llu str ated publications a r e in the wor ks and will soon be ma iled to thos e int e r ested in t h e wo rk of the Coalition . The first is a r e p o rt, inc l uding the tex ts of major addresses , on the Mobili z at ion Confe rence hel d in Chicago o n October 17 . The second will be a similar publicatio n r e p o r tin g on the Privat e Emp l oyme nt Co nfere n ce h eld in Atlanta o n De c e mbe r 1 3. HOUSING, RECONSTRUCTI ON AND INVESTMENT Progre ss cont i nued o n the ma jor wo rking pape r being prepa r e d by t he Task Force as a guide for t h e Coalition in the deve lopme nt o f a long-ra n ge pr o gr am . STEERING COMMITTEE Unavoidab le schedu l i ng pr oble ms for sever a l o f t he principals on the S te e r ing Committee r e su lted in a p o stponement of t h e meeting sche duled fo r De c ember 18 in De troit t o J anuar y 8 in Washington , D. C. The mee t ing wi ll beg in at 7:3 0 p.m. in t he Mayf l ower Hotel . � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document (2) make a strong plea for job opportunities for all Americans through a combination of private and public programs. We thought you would be interested in comparing the President's statement with the goal contained in the Urban Coalition's Statement of Principles adopted at the Emergency Convocation: The President There are some half million unemployed, hard-core unemployed, in our principal cities. We just have to go and find jobs for them. I am going to call in the business- men of America and say one of two things have to happen: You have to help me go out and find jobs for these people, or we are going to have to find jobs in the Govern- ment for them and offer every one of them a job. I think that is one thing that could be done. I think that will have to be done, as ex- pensive as it is. Coalition Goal Government and business must accept responsibility to provide all Americans with opportunity to earn an adequate income. Private industry must greatly accelerate its efforts to recruit, train, and hire the hard-core unemployed. When the private sector is unable to pro- vide employment to those who are both able and willing to work, then in a free society the government must of necessity assume the responsibility and act as the employer of last resort or must assure adequate income for those who are unable to work. The press interpreted the President's statement as an important new policy position on the government's responsibility. At a press con- ference the following day, Rep. Carl D. Perkins (Ky.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee said he would support whatever bill in the field of employment the President sends to Congress next year. said, Providing jobs for those who can't find private employment, he "is the proper role for government". EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES Despite bad weather that closed the Detroit airport for several hours on December 18, seven members of the Educational Disparities Task Force were able to get together for a scheduled meeting. They held a spirited discussion of the problems which exist in this area and began concentration on those which they felt the Coalition could effectively combat. The Task Force will meet again at 2:30 p.m. on January 8 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington. LOCAL COALITIONS Encouragement and assistance in the formation of local urban coali- tions continues to receive high priority. During December Washington (3) D. C., Boston, Baltimore, Plainfield, N. J., Stanford and Bridgeport, Connecticut announced plans for local coalitions. Washington Mayor Walter E. Washington said in a public announcement that citizens have called for the organization of a local coalition "in terms of urgency" generated by the August Emergency Convocation. He emphasized that the local effort must have the support and parti- cipation of the Virginia and Maryland suburbs. The next regional mobilization conference will be held in New York City on January 12 -- at New York University's Loeb Center. EQUAL HOUSING Plans are in progress for a National Action Session on Equal Housing Opportunities to be held in Chicago at the Conrad Hilton Hotel on January 18. The Task Force has concentrated on the completion of program development papers. COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC SUPPORT Two well-illustrated publications are in the works and will soon be mailed to those interested in the work of the Coalition. The first is a report, including the texts of major addresses, on the Mobiliza- tion Conference held in Chicago on October 17. The second will be a similar publication reporting on the Private Employment Conference held in Atlanta on December 13. HOUSING, RECONSTRUCTION AND INVESTMENT Progress continued on the major working paper being prepared by the Task Force as a guide for the Coalition in the development of a long-range program. STEERING COMMITTEE Unavoidable scheduling problems for several of the principals on the Steering Committee resulted in a postponement of the meeting scheduled for December 18 in Detroit to January 8 in Washington, D. C. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Mayflower Hotel.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 43 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/115b3e4049163de4b2a5c96224b7f91a.pdf 8e8267f2437ea4fa05958412e5f16c3d Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. STATEMENT ON THE OPENING OF CONGRESS by The Urban Coali t ion Janu ary 12 , 1968 As the new year begins and the second session of the 90th Congress convenes , The Urban Coalition reaffirms its call for recor,nition of the compellin g ne e ds of the people of ou r nation's cities and for imme diate and positive action to meet those needs, No lon ger can this country tolera te the serious unemployment , housing deficiencies, educat ional dispar i tie s and urban decay which pl ague ur b an America . The Urban Co a lit i on c a ll s upon Ameri c an citi ze n s to ins i st that this session of Congres s e n a c t t he l egi sl ati on n e ce s sary t o res to r e health to our cit i es, The n ati on can ~o l on ger i gnore t he in t o l erable cond it ions of life whi ch cripp l e t oo many of our f e llow citizen s and induce t he widespread di s content and d i .s orde r wh i ch have erupte d year a ft er year, warning Americ a th a t i t is not me eting its re sponsibilities t o its own peop l e. The Urban Coalition, b r oa dly re pres ent ative of American busi ne s s , l ab or , re li gion , c i vil r i gh t s and loca l government, pl e dr,es its fi rm and con tinued s upport f o r a re-ordering of nat ion al prio r ities and a commi tment o f nation al re s our ce s equal to mee ti ng t he s e r e s pons i bilities . The substantial number of communities forming counterpart Urban Coal it ion s all over the country is strong evidence that the ci tizens of our urban areas share the Urban Coalition's concern and its commitment. With the commitment of its citizens this nation has the capacity now to resolve its urban problems o � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document STATEMENT ON THE OPENING OF CONGRESS by The Urban Coalition January 12, 1968 As the new year begins and the second session of the 90th Congress convenes, The Urban Coalition reaffirms its call for recognition of the compelling needs of the people of our nation's cities and for immediate and positive action to meet those needs, No longer can this country tolerate the serious unemployment, housing deficiencies, educa- tional disparities and urban decay which plague urban America, The Urban Coalition calls upon American citizens to insist that this session of Congress enact the legislation necessary to restore health to our cities, The nation can no longer ignore the intolerable conditions of life which cripple too many of our fellow citizens and induce the wide=- spread discontent and disorder which have erupted year after vear, warn- ing America that it is not meeting its responsibilities to its own people, The Urban Coalition, broadly representative of American busi- ness, labor, religion, civil rights and local government, pledges its firm and continued support for a re-ordering of national priorities and a commitment of national resources equal to meeting these responsibilities, The substantial number of communities forming counterpart Urban Coalitions all over the country is strong evidence that the citizens of our urban areas share the Urban Coalition's concern and its commitment, With the commitment of its citizens this nation has the capacity now to resolve its urban problems,  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 44 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/836370b38b24a05cd8ef3d9d3f1aae5a.pdf 390d33b7379b7fd33e32f5c100d65840 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West/ 1819 H Street, N. w. Washington, D . C. / 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph January 12, 1968 NATIONAL COORDINATORS WEEKLY REPORT At a meeting in Washington the night of January 8, the CoalitiDn Steering Committee authorized the creation of an Executive Committee and charged i t with the responsibility for making an early recommendation on a permanent organizational structure for the Coalition. The 15-man Executive Committee will be composed of representatives of all groups active in the Coalition. Membership will be allocated as follows: labor, civil rights, city government--two each; church groups--three; business--four. The Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee will also serve on the Executive Committee. Each group will select its own representatives for the Executive Committee, subject only to the condition that each person selected must agree with Coalition support of a three-point set of principles: (1) What the private sector can do on its own; (2) What the private sector can do in concert 'With government. (3) What the government must do to meet needs beyond the reach of private efforts. LOCAL COALITIONS The Task Force Committee that the proce ss o f and that there on Local Coalitions r eported to the Steering local coalitions h ave been organized, or are in b e ing organized, in 2 7 citie s (see attached list) i s acti v e i nterest in 16 other cities. Steering Committee Co- Chair ma n Andrew Heiskell commented: "I find it e x t remely encour aging that a ll sections of the country are r epre sen t ed i n the list. Thi s i s real pr ogr ess. We rave fe l t all a l ong t hat the dev e lopment o f stro n g local g r oups is of prime i mp ortance. " Indicative of the g e o graphic s pread of l o ca l c oalition s was t wo trips made during the week by the National Coord inator s t o meet with local groups. John Feild went to Fresno, California, Ron Linton to Bridgeport, Connecticut. National Coordinators : John Feild/ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 -1530 �-2- On Friday, some 350 representatives from 82 cities in 21 states met in New York City for the third in the series of meetings on Mobilizing Local Coalitions. The interest was high, the speakers were excellent, and the overall staff consensus was that it was the best meeting held to date. Speakers included Co-Chairman Andrew Heiskell, the Most Rev. John J. Maguire, Administrator of the Archdiocese of New York, Equitable Life Assurance Society Board Chairman James F. Oates, Jr., Rabbi Joseph P. Sternstein, Christian A. Herter, Jr. Chairman of the New York City Coalition, Mayor John Lindsay, Dr. Edler G. Hawkins, AFL-CIO Legislative Representative Ray Denison, and National Urban League Executive Director Whitney M. Young, Jr. LEGISLATION The Steering Committee authorized the release of a strong statement of legislative goals of the Coalition to coincide with the opening of the new session of Congress (see attachment). The Washington Post commented in its Sunday edition: Much of the impetus for any crisis legislation will come from the civicbusiness-labor-and civil rights forces organized as The Urban Coalition, which yesterday warned Congress that "the hour is late." � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The Urban Coalition / Federal Bar Building West [1819 H Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. | 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskel/ / A. Philip Randolph January 12, 1968 NATIONAL COORDINATORS WEEKLY REPORT At a meeting in Washington the night of January 8, the Coalition Steering Committee authorized the creation of an Executive Committee and charged it with the responsibility for making an early recommen- dation on a permanent organizational structure for the Coalition. The 15-man Executive Committee will be composed of representatives of all groups active in the Coalition. Membership will be allocated as follows: labor, civil rights, city government--two each; church groups--three; business--four. The Co-Chairmen of the Steering Committee will also serve on the Executive Committee. Each group will select its own representatives for the Executive Committee, subject only to the condition that each person selected must agree with Coalition support of a three-point set of principles: (1) What the private sector can do on its own; (2) What the private sector can do in concert with government. (3) What the government must do to meet needs beyond the reach of private efforts. LOCAL COALITIONS The Task Force on Local Coalitions reported to the Steering Committee that local coalitions have been organized, or are in the process of being organized, in 27 cities (see attached list) and that there is active interest in 16 other cities. Steering Committee Co-Chairman Andrew Heiskell commented: "I find it extremely encouraging that all sections of the country are represented in the list. This is real progress. We have felt all along that the development of strong local groups is of prime importance." Indicative of the geographic spread of local coalitions was two trips made during the week by the National Coordinators to meet with local groups. John Feild went to Fresno, California, Ron Linton to Bridgeport, Connecticut. National Coordinators: John Feild / Ron M. Linton Telephone 293-1530 On Friday, some 350 representatives from 82 cities in 21 states met in New York City for the third in the series of meetings on Mobilizing Local Coalitions. The interest was high, the speakers were excellent, and the overall staff consensus was that it was the best meeting held to date. Speakers included Co-Chairman Andrew Heiskell, the Most Rev. John J. Maguire, Administrator of the Archdiocese of New York, Equitable Life Assurance Society Board Chairman James F. Oates, Jr., Rabbi Joseph P. Sternstein, Christian A. Herter, Jr. Chairman of the New York City Coalition, Mayor John Lindsay, Dr. Edler G. Hawkins, - AFL-CIO Legislative Representative Ray Denison, and National Urban League Executive Director Whitney M. Young, Jr. LEGISLATION The Steering Committee authorized the release of a strong statement of legislative goals of the Coalition to coincide with the opening of the new session of Congress (see attachment). The Washington Post commented in its Sunday edition: Much of the impetus for any crisis legislation will come from the civic- business-labor-and civil rights forces organized as The Urban Coalition, which yesterday warned Congress that "the hour is late."  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 45 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/bb5c8de615ca900f924f978fbdacfce6.pdf 9471bab5c5bcac2915566ba97a49958d Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. r The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West/ 1819 H Street, N. w. Washington , D. C. / 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph December 8, 1967 Dear Friend: We have learned that the Plans for Progress is holding a National Conference on Employment for major employers in Washington, D. c. on January 24, 1968, the same date as our Midwestern Regional Conference on Expanding Employment Opportunities. Since many of the same persons would be involved in both conferences, we have agreed to reschedule our Kansas City conference from January 24, 1968, to February 21, 1968. We expect to forward further details on the program in the future . oi2- 'J;? ;;!i d;__ National Coordinator Ron M. Linton National Coordinator National Coordinators: John Feild / Ron M . Linton Telephone 293-1530 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The UY, I, ‘ban C 0a / it fon / Federal Bar Building West | 1819 H Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. | 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskel/ / A. Philip Randolph h | December 8, 1967 Dear Friend: We have learned that the Plans for Progress is holding a National Conference on Employment for major employers in Washington, D. C. on January 24, 1968, the same date as our Midwestern Regional Conference on Expanding Employment Opportunities. Since many of the same persons would be involved in both conferences, we have agreed to reschedule our Kansas City conference from January 24, 1968, to February 21, 1968. We expect to forward further details on the program in the future. Sincerely, John Feild Ron M. Linton National Coordinator National Coordinator National Coordinators: John Feild {| Ron M. Linton Telephone 293-7530  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 46 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/daf883a197ce1ce3ab8fa568d63c3d0b.pdf 84f6f995832453a9b96a1236c3d9e707 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. -2- We call upon the Conf,ress, the Administration and the nation to move without delay on urban programs, The Administration's Open Housing legislation should be enacted into law now, Definite steps should be taken now to assure government-f-enerated employment to every citizen able and willing to work but unable to find private employment, The Administration's Safe Streets and Crime Control Act and Juvenile Delinquency amendments were drastically altered in the House of Representatives last year to channel the programs and funds through a state pl anninp, and allocation proce ss which would delay and frustrate their effectiveness, The original Administration version of these bills should be pas sed by the Sen a t e so a s to mount an efficient and effective attack on the root cause s of violence , crime and delinquency coupled with the development of impr oved local law enforcement, A supplementar y appropri at ion bill should be immediately introduced and enacted to f und f ully the Pr e s ident's anti- pove rtv pro p.rams as authorize d for this f i sca l year, Programs f or l ow and moderate income hous i ng, ur ban de ve lopment, model cities, mass transportation and community facilities should be extended, expanded and adequately funded now. The repressive welfare program amendments enacted last year, penalizing children born into one- parent homes and Ahifting the financinp. burden to local government, should be r epealed immediately. �-3- We know these legislative aims are more easily stated than accomplished. But we also know the needs are massive and urgent, and the hour is late. We pledge our full support for the le~islative action required and ask the help of Congress and the nation. Andrew Heiskell Co-Chairman, The Urban Coalition Chairman of the Board, Time Inc. A. Philip Randolph Co-Chairman, The Urban Coalition Vice President, AFL-CIO � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document =2=< We call upon the Congress, the Administration and the nation to move without delay on urban programs, The Administration's Open Housing legislation should be enacted into law now, Definite steps should be taken now to assure government-gener- ated employment to every citizen able and willing to work but unable to find private employment, The Administration's Safe Streets and Crime Control Act and Juvenile Delinquency amendments were drastically altered in the House of Representatives last year to channel the programs and funds through a state planning and allocation process which would delay and frustrate their effectiveness, The original Administration version of these bills should be passed by the Senate so as to mount an efficient and effective attack on the root causes of violence, crime and delinquency coupled with the development of improved local law enforcement, A supplementary appropriation bill should be immediately intro- duced and enacted to fund fully the President's anti=povertv programs as authorized for this fiscal year, Programs for low and moderate income housing, urban development, model cities, mass transportation and community facilities should be extended, expanded and adequately funded now, The repressive welfare program amendments enacted last year, penalizing children born into one=parent homes and shifting the financing burden to local government, should be repealed immediately, ntfs We know these legislative aims are more easily stated than accomplished, But we also know the needs are massive and urgent, and the hour is late, We pledge our full support for the legislative action required and ask the help of Congress and the nation, Andrew Heiskell A. Philip Randolph Co-Chairman, The Urban Coalition Co-Chairman, The Urban Coalition Chairman of the Board, Time Inc, Vice President, AFL-CIO  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 47 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/4ae257b63db43e8beac627d9c5229cd7.pdf 6e98d14f211e0922288ceeffa1f2db1b Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. f The . Urban Coalition I Federal Bar B11ilding West/ 1819 H Street. N. W. Wash ington. D. C. / 20006 St eerin_g__ Co m m itte e Co-chairm en : Ano'rew He i.:;k ell / A. Phiiip Randolph December 11, 1967 IMPORTANT NOTICE TO: FROM: Members of the Steering Committee Steering Committee Co-Chairmen The location of the December 18th Steering Committee meeting has been changed from thJ Veterans Memorial Building to the Detroit Art Institute, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Please use the Farnsworth Street entrance to the building. As originally plann ~d, the meeting will commence at 4:00 pm, and will be followed by a reception and a dinner hosted by Mayor Cavanagh, at the Detroit Art Institute. National Coordinators : John Feild/ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 - 1530 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document I he. Ur ban C Oa ition / Federal Bar Building West | 1819 H Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. | 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell [A Philip Randolph December 11, 1967 IMPORTANT NOTICE TO: Members of the Steering Committee FROM: Steering Committee Co-Chairmen The location of the December 18th Steering Committee meeting has been changed from the Veterans Memorial Building to the Detroit Art Institute, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan. Please use the Farnsworth Street entrance to the building. As originally planned, the meeting will commence at 4:00 pm, and will be followed by a reception and a dinner hosted by Mayor Cavanagh, at the Detroit Art Institute. Nationa! Coordinators: John Feild [ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293-1530  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 48 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/52375f38bfc998643c333f319abfae58.pdf 7389c999f3c684f59cb5d33d48cddbb4 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. ~ The urban Coalition I Federal Ba~ B,u.:rfin,<1 We:;// 1819 H Street, N. W. Washington. D. C. / 20006 Sleering___Commiltee Co-chairmen : Andrew Heiskeil / A. Phi.',:o Randolph December 8, 1967 NATIONAL COORDINATORS WEEKLY REPORT This week's report consists of the following schedule of coalition activities, the rosters of two Task Forces which have now rounded out their membership and the enclosed material on the New York Coalition and the December 18th Meeting of the Steering Committee. DECEMBER Steering Committee Meeting Detroit Task Force on Educational Disparities Meeting Detroit Tuesday, the 19th: Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Economic Council Detroit Monday, the 18th: JAJ.'1UARY Wednesday, the 10th: Task Force on Communications Luncheon New York City Friday, the 12th: Task Force on Local Coalitions Eastern Regional Conference New York City Wednesday, the 17th: Task Force on Private Employment Western Regional Conference Phoenix, Ariz. Thursday, the 18th: Task Force on Equal Housing Opportunities: National Action Conference Chicago, Ill. Monday, the 29th: (TENTATIVE) Council of Urban Coalitions Washington, D.C. Tuesday, the 30th : Steering Committee Meeting Washington, D.C. Private Employment Task Force Mid-Western Regional Conference Kansas City, Mo. FEBRUARY I j Wednesday, the 21st: ' ' . National Coordinators : John Feild/ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 -1530 �TASK FORCE ON EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES CO-CHAIRMEN: Roy Ash Roy Wilkins Arthur Fleming MEMBERS Walter Davis Director of Education AFL-CIO Washington, D.C. Edward Hodges Michigan Bell Telephone Company Detroit, Michigan Dr. Francis Ke ppel General Learning Corp. New York, New York Dr. Paul Briggs Superintendent of Schools Cleveland, Ohio Dr. James Redmond Superintendent of Schools Chicago, Illinois Dr . Arthu r Johns on As soc. Superinte nde nt o f Schools Detroit, Michigan Dr. Steven Wright President, Negro College Fund New York, New York Dr. Charles Brown Superintendent of Schools Newton, Mass. Dr. Elliott Shapiro Ass't Superintendent of Schools New York, New York William Saltonstall Ft. Rodman Job Corps New Bedford, Mass. Vernon R. Alde n President, Ohio University Athens, Ohio Thomas H. Eliot Chance llor , Was hington Univers ity St . Lou is , Missou r i Buell Gallaghe r President , City College New York , New York �t \ TASK FORCE ON HOUSING, RECONSTRUCTION, AND INVESTMENT CO-CHAIRMEN: Walter Reuther Joseph D. Keenan David Rockefeller MEMBERS Frank E. Mackle Mackle Builders Miami, Florida Gene Brewer President U.S. Plywood-Champion Paper New York, New York Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Chairman of the Board I.B.M. Armonk Village, New York Rudolph Peterson President Bank of America National Trust and Saving Assn. San Francisco, Calif. Mr. George H. Weyerhoeuser President Weyerhoeuser Company Tocoma, Washington Donald C. Burnham President Westinghouse Electric Corp. Pittsburgh, Pa. James Felt James Felt & Company New York, New York Paul Ylivisaker Commissioner Department of Community Affairs Trenton, New Jersey James Rouse · President Rouse Company Baltimore, Md. Honorable John Collins Mayor of the City of Boston Honorable Jerome Cavanagh Mayor of the City of Detroit Bayard Rustin Executive Director A. Philip Randolph Institute New York, New York �( ,. . .. \ NEW YORK COALITION TO UNDERTAKE IMAGINATIVE JOB TRAINING PROGRAM Mayor John Lindsay announced last week an imaginative new program to be launched by the New York Coalition with the financial backing of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Under the $125,000 Standard Oil grant, the city's Police Department will train men and women from poverty areas for career employment in the private sector. The approximately 50 trainees will perform civilian work in the Department during half of their work time and attend school the other half. They will be paid about $60 a week during the sixmonths training period. Calling the new endeavor an "experimental program", the Mayor said "I am delighted that Standard Oil (New Jersey) has made this project possible. It is an excellent example of cooperation between the private and public sectors." Milo Brisco, a vice president and board member of Standard Oil (New Jersey) and the company's representative on the New York Coalition, joined the mayor in making the announcement. They said the new program, the first to be undertaken by the New York Coalition, was developed by Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary and the company.. 7he Mayor said the program is not intended to prepare trainees for employment with city government, but is aimed at preparing them to qualify for jobs in the general employment market. �( . STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING December 18, 1967 PROPOSED AGENDA I. II. III. IV. V. Minutes of previous meeting Administrative and Financial report Report of Organization Committee Report of Committee on Budget and Finance Report of Task Forces - _-Loe_ - _Ca.a:-1.ition s --Private Employment --Equal Housing Opportunities --Educational Disparities --Housing, Reconstruction, and Investment --Legislation--Policy Statement for 1968 --Communications � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document The Urban Coalition / Federal Bar Butiding West [ 1819 H Street, N.W. Washington. D. C. [ 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell [A Phitio Randolph pecember 8, 1967 NATIONAL COORDINATORS WEEKLY REPORT This week's report consists of the following schedule of Coalition activities, the rosters of two Task Forces which have now rounded out their membership and the enclosed material on the New York Coalition and the December 18th Meeting of the Steering Committee. DECEMBER Monday, the 18th: Steering Committee Meeting Task Force on Educational Disparities Meeting Tuesday, the 19th: Ad Hoc Committee on Urban Economic Council JANUARY Wednesday, the 10th: Friday, the 12th: Wednesday, the 17th: Thursday, the 18th: Monday, the 29th: (TENTATIVE) Tuesday, the 30th: FEBRUARY Wednesday, the 21st: Task Force on Communications Luncheon Task Force on Local Coalitions Eastern Regional Conference Task Force on Private Employment Western Regional Conference Task Force on Equal Housing Opportunities: National Action Conference Council of Urban Coalitions Steering Committee Meeting Private Employment Task Force Mid-Western Regional Conference Detroit Detroit Detroit New York City New York City Phoenix, Ariz. Chicago, Ili. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Kansas City, Mo. National Coordinators: John Feild | Ron M. Linton Telephone 293-1530 TASK FORCE ON EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES CO-CHATRMEN: Roy Ash Roy Wilkins Arthur Fleming MEMBERS Walter Davis Director of Education AFL-CIO Washington, D.C. Edward Hodges Michigan Bell Telephone Company Detroit, Michigan Dr. Francis Keppel General Learning Corp. New York, New York Dr. Paul Briggs Superintendent of Schools Cleveland, Ohio Dr. James Redmond Superintendent of Schools Chicago, Illinois Dr. Arthur Johnson Assoc. Superintendent of Schools Detroit, Michigan Dr. Steven Wright President, Negro College Fund New York, New York Dr. Charles Brown Superintendent of Schools Newton, Mass. Dr. Elliott Shapiro Ass't Superintendent of Schools New York, New York William Saltonstall Ft. Rodman Job Corps New Bedford, Mass. Vernon R. Alden President, Ohio University Athens, Ohio Thomas H. Eliot Chancellor, Washington University St. Louis, Missouri Buell Gallagher President, City College New York, New York TASK FORCE ON HOUSING, CO-CHAIRMEN: Walter Reuther RECONSTRUCTION, AND INVESTMENT Joseph D. Keenan David Rockefeller MEMBERS Frank E. Mackle Mackle Builders Miami, Florida Gene Brewer President U. S. Plywood-Champion Paper New York, New York Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Chairman of the Board feBeM, Armonk Village, New York Rudolph Peterson President Bank of America National Trust and Saving Assn. San Francisco, Calif. Mr. George H. Weyerhoeuser | President Weyerhoeuser Company Tocoma, Washington Donald C. Burnham President Westinghouse Electric Corp. Pittsburgh, Pa. James Felt James Felt & Company New York, New York Paul Ylivisaker Commissioner Department of Community Affairs Trenton, New Jersey James Rouse “President Rouse Company Baltimore, Md. Honorable John Collins Mayor of the City of Boston Honorable Jerome Cavanagh Mayor of the City of Detroit Bayard Rustin Executive Director A. Philip Randolph Institute New York, New York NEW YORK COALITION TO UNDERTAKE IMAGINATIVE JOB TRAINING PROGRAM Mayor John Lindsay announced last week an imaginative new program to be launched by the New York Coalition with the financial backing of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Under the $125,000 Standard Oil grant, the city's Police Department will train men and women from poverty areas for career employment in the private sector. The approximately 50 trainees will perform civilian work in the Department during half of their work time and attend school the other half. They will be paid about $60 a week during the six- months training period. Calling the new endeavor an "experimental program", the Mayor said "I am delighted that Standard Oil (New Jersey) has made this project possible. It is an excellent example of cooperation between the private and public sectors." Milo Brisco, a vice president and board member of Standard Oil (New Jersey) and the company's representative on the New York Coalition, joined the mayor in making the announce- ment. They said the new program, the first to be undertaken by the New York Coalition, was developed by Police Commissioner Howard R. Leary and the company. The Mayor said the program is not intended to prepare trainees for employment with city government, but is aimed at preparing them to qualify for jobs in the general employment market. cle. iif. IV. STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING December 18, 1967 PROPOSED AGENDA Minutes of previous meeting Administrative and Financial report Report of Organization Committee Report of Committee on Budget and Finance Report of Task Forces --Local. Coalitions --Private Employment --Equal Housing Opportunities --Educational Disparities --Housing, Reconstruction, and Investment --Legislation--Policy Statement for 1968 --Communications  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 49 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/474a46dca2521637491484bc7e5e7c0f.pdf b390d1c8f4548d779598ac4db5133862 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. December 11, 1967 MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Steering Committee Urban Coalition FROM: John Gunther, U.S. Conference of Mayors Chairman, Work ing Committee on Organization SUBJECT : The Urban Coalition in 1968 Your Working Committee on Organization met and based on that meeting and subsequent discussions with individual members of the Working Committee, I submit this report. 1. The Urban Coalition should mntinue its efforts toward assuring an e quitable share of the benefits from the nation's economy for the residents of our central citi es. The .Urban Coalition should ·b e respons i ve to bu:c. independent of the individual element s of it. The Coalition should seek to facilitate the implemen tation of policies developed by it and others and concurred i n by the Coalition. Areas of substantive conce rn should be educa tion, employment, and housing, including related community facili tie s and services. The Coalition should encourage the format i on of local coalitions to develop and implement plans for the solu tion o f communi.t-:, problems . The National Coalition, through local coalitions and by direct action, should support polic ies to order private and public priorities to me et the press i n g and long neglected needs of the centra l cities . 2. The Steer ing Committee is the gover ning body of the Coalition and i t ma y a dd to its number as i t deems appr opr iate . The Stee rin g Committe e shall select its cha i r man or c o -chair men fr om its member s and s h all determine the substance of the areas o f the Co aliti on activ itie s, e s t abl i sh a b udget and employ a Nationa l Coordinator. 3. There shall be a Counci l o f Lo cal Coalitions. This Council will be made up of two representatives from each local coalition and i t shall selec t two o f its members to ser ve on the national Steer i n g Committee. The Council will ser ve in an advisor y c apacity to t he Steer ing Committee . �2 4. Each member of the Steering Committee may designate an individual to represent him on the Working Committee. The Working Committee shall select a chairman or co-chairman from its members, and may establish committees as needed to oversee the implementation of decisions by the Steering Committee, and prepare proposals for the consideration of the Steering Committee. 5. Areas of Coalition activity will be explored in depth by task forces established by the Steering Committee and responsible to the Steering Committee. 6. The Coalition shall employ such staff as its budgeted resources permit. The staff will be under the direction of a National Coordinator who may be retained and serve at the pleasure of the Steering Committee. The staff will provide services as necessary to the Steering Committee, the Council of Local Coalitions, the task forces and the Working Committee. 7. Staffing and funding should be planned on a one-year basis; and prior to January l, 196~ a comprehensive review should be made to asses progress toward the objectives of the Urban Coalition and to make such recommendatiorsas may be appropriate for its continuation. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document December li, 1967 MEMORANDUM TO2 Members of the Steering Committee Urban Coalition FROM: John Gunther, U. S. Conference of Mayors Chairman, Working Committee on Organization SUBJECT: The Urban Coalition in 1968 Your Working Committee on Organization met and based on that meeting and subsequent discussions with individual members of the Working Committee, I submit this report. l. The Urban Coalition should ontinue its efforts toward assur- ing an equitable share of the benefits from the nation's economy for the residents of our central cities. The Urban Coalition should be responsive to but independent of the individual elements of it. The Coalition should seek to facilitate the implementation of policies developed by it and others and con- curred in by the Coalition. Areas of substantive concern should be education, employment, and housing, including related community facilities and services. The.Coalition should encourage the formation of local coalitions to develop and implement plans for the solution of communityw problems. The National Coalition, through local coalitions and by direct action, should support policies to order private and public priorities to meet the pressing and long neglected needs of the central cities. 2. The Steering Committee is the governing body of the Coalition and it may add to its number as it deems appropriate. The Steering Committee shall select its chairman or co-chairmen from its members and shall determine the substance of the areas of the Coalition activities, establish a budget and employ a National Coordinator. 3. There shall be a Council of Local Coalitions. This Council will be made up of two representatives from each local coalition and it shall select two of its members to serve on the national Steering Committee. The Council will serve in an advisory capacity to the Steering Committee. 4. Each member of the Steering Committee may designate an individual to represent him on the Working Committee. The Working Committee shall select a chairman or co-chairman from its members, and may establish committees as needed to oversee the implementation of decisions by the Steering Committee, and pre- pare proposals for the consideration of the Steering Committee. 5. Areas of Coalition activity will be explored in depth by task forces established by the Steering Committee and responsible to the Steering Committee. 6. The Coalition shall employ such staff as its budgeted resources permit. The staff will be under the direction of a National Coordinator who may be retained and serve at the pleasure of the Steering Committee. The staff will provide services as necessary to the Steering Committee, the Council of Local Coalitions, the task forces and the Working Committee. 7. Staffing and funding should be planned on a one-year basis; and prior to January 1, 1969, a comprehensive review should be made to asses progress toward the objectives of the Urban Coalition and to make such recommendations as may be appropriate for its continu- ation.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 50 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/fff75d22daf75d176b041893010b5789.pdf 56bf2b744148a0cdb6479f9dfd28543e Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. December 18, 1967 Report of the Committee on Budget and Finance The Committee has reviewed the financial report for the Coalition's activities from July 31, 1967 through November 30, 1967. A copy of the report is attached. It appears that the experience of the first four months of operations has produced a substantial degree of organization approximately within the projected budget approved by the Steering Committee on August 23. The Committee notes that the current and projected level of activity through January 31, 1968 will require the fulfillment of the outstanding pledges. The Committee recommends that the Coalition extend its interim budget for an additional three months through April 30, 1968 at a level of at least $50,000 to enable the Coalition and its Task Forces to complete its organizational phase. Looking beyond this, the Committee believes that the future annual budget can only be determined after the Steering Committee has determined the scope of its program. The projected budget for operations developed by the staff appears reasonable and can be increased or decreased based upon the Steering Committee actions during the next several months · as the organizational phase is completed. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document December 18, 1967 Report of the Committee on Budget and Finance The Committee has reviewed the financial report for the Coalition's activities from July 31, 1967 through November 30, 1967. A copy of the report is attached. It appears that the experience of the first four months of operations has produced a substantial degree of organization approximately within the projected budget approved by the Steering Committee on August 23. The Committee notes that the current and projected level of activity through January 31, 1968 will require the fulfillment of the outstanding pledges. The Committee recommends that the Coalition extend its interim budget for an additional three months through April 30, 1968 ata level of at least $50,000 to enable the Coalition and its Task Forces to complete its organizational phase. Looking beyond this, the Committee believes that the future annual budget can only be determined after the Steering Committee has determined the scope of its program. The projected budget for operations developed by the staff appears reasonable and can be increased or decreased based upon the Steering Committee actions during the next several months as the organizational phase is completed.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 51 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/6451019371c2635667f0476a99930722.pdf 8fda6bc8eee5b9d7351ee7b5ec878024 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. • MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FINANCE DECEMBER 7, 1967 New York City, N. Y. The Committee met in New York City at 2 East 37th Street at 2 P.M., December 7, 1967. Present were Mr. Asa Spaulding, Chairman, and Mr. Theodore Schlesinger. Mayor Jerome Cavanagh was unable to attend because of severe weather. Staff members present included Mr. Ron Linton, Mr. John Feild and Mr. Alfred Eisenpreis. The Chairman opened the meeting by asking for a general review of the progress being made by the Coalition and the public response to its efforts. The staff and the Committee then discussed recent activities of the Task Forces on Local Coalitions, Private Employment, Communications and Housing. In reviewing the financial report the question was raised concerning the status of the unpaid pledges and the likelihood of their being received. The staff reported that while there had been some delay, the outlook appeared favorable and it was hoped that the projected income would b e realized by the end of January. Mr. Schlesinge~ asked for clarification regarding the relationship between the Urban Coalition and Urban America and the staff reported that they were now completely separate organizations although the earlier relationship had been one of close cooperation between Urban America, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities in bringing the Coalition into being. The Committee nex t turned to the question of future organization in order to evaluate the tentative future budget prepared by th~ staff. The staff reported on the current discussions, concerning futur e organization and indicated that major decisions would have to be made b y the Steering Committee con cer n i ng this in the immediate futu r e. In view of this , Mr . Sch lesin ger pr oposed and Mr. Sp a ulding agreed that it would be mor e appropr iate fo r the Committ e e at th i s stage to r e c omme n d a n i n t e rim b u dge t t han to atte mp t a ny r e c omme n dat i ons c on cern i n g a n annua l b udge t. Accor d ingly, the c ommi ttee a gr e e d t o recommend t o the Steering Committee a n interim budge t f or a thre e month perio d b e y o nd January 3 1 at a mi n imum l e v e l o f $5 0 , 00 0 with the same controls and pro c e dures guiding the operations in order that the Coalition may complete its further organization during this period . This will enable the Steering Conunittee to take into account the recommendations of the various Task Forces and to make som3 judgments concerning the scope of the program . . . �2 The committee indicated it could comment that the projected ·budget prepared by the staff appeared to be reasonable, and could be adjusted upward or downward depending upon the decisions made by the Steering Committee concerning organization. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET AND FINANCE DECEMBER 7, 1967 New York City, N. Y. The Committee met in New York City at 2 East 37th Street at 2 P.M., December 7, 1967. Present were Mr. Asa Spaulding, Chairman, and Mr. Theodore Schlesinger. Mayor Jerome Cavanagh was unable to attend because of severe weather. Staff members present included Mr. Ron Linton, Mr. John Feild and Mr. Alfred Eisenpreis. The Chairman opened the meeting by asking for a general review of the progress being made by the Coalition and the public response to its efforts. The staff and the Committee then discussed recent activities of the Task Forces on Local Coalitions, Private Employment, Communications and Housing. In reviewing the financial report the question was raised concern- ing the status of the unpaid pledges and the likelihood of their being received. The staff reported that while there had been some delay, the outlook appeared favorable and it was hoped that the projected income would be realized by the end of January. Mr. Schlesingex asked for clarification regarding the relation- ship between the Urban Coalition and Urban America and the staff reported that they were now completely separate organizations although the earlier relationship had been one of close coopera- tion between Urban America, the U. S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities in bringing the Coalition into being. The Committee next turned to the question of future organization in order to evaluate the tentative future budget prepared by the staff. The staff reported on the current discussions, concerning future organization and indicated that major decisions would have to be made by the Steering Committee concerning this in the immediate future. In view of this, Mr. Schlesinger proposed and Mr. Spaulding agreed that it would be more appropriate for the Committee at this stage to recommend an interim budget than to attempt any recommendations concerning an annual budget. Accordingly, the committee agreed to recommend to the Steering Committee an interim budget for a three month period beyond January 31 at a minimum level of $50,000 with the same controls and procedures guiding the operations in order that the Coalition may complete its further organization during this period. This will enable the Steering Committee to take into account the recommendations of the various Task Forces and to make some judg- ments concerning the scope of the program. The committee indicated it could comment that the projected budget prepared by the staff appeared to be reasonable, and could be adjusted upward or downward depending upon the decisions made by the Steering Committee concerning organization.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 52 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/76c2ab679bd4a9f67472707ac09e63d4.pdf 923c4482022b4466c6954432bdcd225b Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. , ! ·, December 1, 1967 ~ · FINANCIAL REPORT* Accounts Payable as of 11/30/67 Bills $9,129.78 Urban America 5,316.12 Petty Cash 251. 66 $14,697.56 Funds Obligated through 1/31/68 7,141.69 Funds Exp e nded through ll/30/6i 71,398.08 Project ed Expenses, 12/1/67--1/31/68 35,972.05 $129,210.27 Donations Receive d as of 11/30/67 $50,325.05 Pledges Due by 1/31/68 74,000.00 $12 4 ,325.05 - "$ 4,885.22 CASH FLOW REPORT Cash Re c eived a s of 1 1/ 30/67 Cash Borrowe d Urban America $ 4 ,765.00 U. S . Confe r e nce of Mayo rs 16 ,64 6 . 19 $50,3 25. 0 5 Funds Exp ended Cash o n Han d 338 .16 21, 4 11.1 9 $7 1 ,736 . 24 ,. $71 , 398.08 ~Transfer of fund s between U.S. Co nference of Mayor s , Ur b an America and The Urban Coalition is undergoing audit. $7 1 ,736 . 24 �FINANCIAL REPORT, PART II Approved Budget $ 56,000 $ 18,500 $4,600 3,600 600 1,200 1,500 250 5,200 50 17,000 $ 8,500 $100,000 Projected Expenses through 1/31/67 $28,972.29 : $21,629.94 $50,602.23 + $5,397.77 $ 6,700.00 $13,419.25 + $5,080.75 Salaries (including part time & temporary help) $3,000 8,000 2,500 5,000 $ Item Expenditures through, 11/30/67 (including Accounts Payable) Program Ex2enses Conferences & Meetings $ 948.30 . r 700.00 Publications & Printing l,C38.40 1,500.00 Mailings 2,E08.95 2,500.00 Consultant Fees 2 ,123.60 2,000.00 TOTAL $ 6,719.25 Toial of Expenditures & Projected Expenses Difference L 02erating Ex2enses Office Rent Furniture Rental Equipment Rental Telephone & Telegraph Office Supplies Insurance Travel Subscriptions TOTAL $3,195.00 3,295.62 327 .13 2,433.22 1,892.54 454.00 6,510.78 74.55 -:1' 1,065.00 900.00 204.69 2,400.00 700.00 9,500.00 15.00 $18,182.84 $14,784.69 $32,967.53 -$15,967. 5 3 August Convocation $25,829.08 -$17,329. 08 Undistributed Ex2enses $ 6,392.18* -$ 6,392.18 $81,629.59 $43,114.63 $124,744.22 -$29,210 . 27 Accounts Payable not yet posted and fund transfers being audited. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document December 1, FINANCIAL REPORT* Accounts Payable as of 11/30/67 Bills $9,129.78 Urban America 5 oe, 2 Petty Cash 251.66 $14,697.56 Funds Obligated through 1/31/68 7,141.69 Funds Expended through 11/30/67 71,398.08 Projected Expenses, 12/1/67--1/31/68 35,072.05 Donations Received as of 11/30/67 $50,325.05 Pledges Due by 1/31/68 74,000.00 1967 $1295 210227 $124,325.05 - $ 4,885.22 CASH FLOW REPORT Cash Received as o£ 11/30/67 550,325.05 Funds Expended Cash Borrowed Cash on Hand Urban America S$ 4,765.00 U.S. Conference of Mayors 16,646.19 21.,412,19 $71,736.24 $71,398.08 338.16 $71,736.24 *Transfer of funds between U.S. Conference of Mayors, Urban America and The Urban Coalition is undergoing audit. FINANCIAL REPORT, PART II Expenditures through Total of Expendi- 11/30/67 (including Projected Expenses tures & Projected Approved Budget Item Accounts Payable) through 1/31/67 Expenses Difference S$ 56,000 Salaries (including part $28,972.29 $21,629.94 $50,602.23 + $5,397.77 time & temporary help) Program Expenses $3,000 Conferences & Meetings $ 948,30 $ 700.00 8,000 Publications & Printing 1,C38.40 1,500.00 2,500 Mailings 2,€08.95 2,500.00 5,000 Consultant Fees 2,123.60 2,000.00 $ 18,500 TOTAL $ 6,719.25 $ 6,700.00 $13,419.25 + $5,080.75 Operating Expenses $4,600 Office Rent $3,195.00 1,065.00 3,600 Furniture Rental 3,295.62 900.00 600 Equipment Rental 327.13 204.69 1,200 Telephone & Telegraph 2,433.22 2,400.00 1,500 Office Supplies 1,892.54 700.00 250 Insurance 454.00 5,200 Travel 6,510.78 9,500.00 50 Subscriptions 74.55 15.00 $ 17,000 TOTAL $18,182.84 $14,784.69 $32,967.53 -$15,967.53 5, | 87500 August Convocation $25,829.08 -$17,329.08 Undistributed Expenses S$ 6,392,18* -$ 6,392.18 $100,000 $81,629.59 $43,114.63 $124,744.22 -$29,210.27 *Accounts Payable not yet posted and fund transfers being audited.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 53 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/da9b37745ff40dbfe4b3bbd058e7229e.pdf 21a0ab87de76984c7b62e5f2d7379a39 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. December l, 1967 PROPOSED BUDGET Budget Budget 9/1/67 - 1/31/68 2/1/68 - 4/30/68 Personnel Salaries (full time) Part-time and Consultants $56,000 $27,000 6,000 $33,000 Program Expenses 2 3, 700 $3,000 8,000 2,500 5,000 5,200 Conferences & Meetings Publications & Printing Mailings Consultant fees Travel $ l, 000 . 2,250 3,600 3,000 9,850 $ 2,230 645 306 3,600 1,000 250 50 8,081 Operating Expenses 11,800 8,500 $100,000 $4,600 3,600 600 1,200 1,500 250 50 Office Rent Furniture Equipment Telephone & Telegraph Office Supplies Insurance Subscriptions Convocation $50, ,9 31 • � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Budget pL /GT = 1/31/68 $56,000 23 -r00 11,800 8,500 $100,000 $3,000 8,000 2,500 5,000 5,200 $4,600 3,600 600 1,200 1,500 250 50 PROPOSED BUDGET Personnel Salaries (full time) Part-time and Consultants Program Expenses Conferences & Meetings Publications & Printing Mailings Consultant fees Travel Operating Expenses Office Rent Furniture Equipment Telephone & Telegraph Office Supplies Insurance Subscriptions Convocation Budget 2/1/68 - 4/30/68 $27,000 6,000 $ 1,000 2,250 3,600 3,000 3: 2,250 645 306 3,600 1,000 250 50 December 1, 1967 $33,000 © 9,850 8,081 $50,931  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 54 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/fd241dab642b39bfd62ce75d33251f64.pdf e71d4a25b7bb1b2277f5f188a4c03c35 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West /1819HStreet, N.W. Washington , D. c. /20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen : Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph December 15, 1967 Dear Friend: You are cordially invited to attend a one-day planning conference on mobilization of local coalitions to be held in New York City at Loeb Student Center of New York University on January 12, 1968. This is the third of a series of three regional conferences the Coalition is holding in response to requests from local community leadership across the country for assistance in organizing and programming local action counterparts to the national Urban Coalition. Leadership delegations from cities throughout the eastern part of the United States are expe cted to attend and participate in this meeting. While the major portion of the meeting will be devoted to workshop sessions dealing with the organization and prog rammi ng of local coalition efforts, we will have pertinent a ddresses fr om not only the se ss ion ho s t, May o r John V. Lindsay , but national leaders from business, labor, religion and civil rights. We wil l send y ou a program announceme nt shortly and will look forwa r d to see ing y ou in New York on Janua r y 1 2th. Cord ially , (( ~)w, ff~ ~ Andrew Heiskell Co- cha irma n /~L !~,_/4/7 Phiiip ' Rando lph , / LAj A. Co- ch ai rma n National Coordinators : John <=e,ld / Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 -1530 � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document /he Urban Coalition / Federal Bar Building West | 1819 H Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. [ 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Hejskell / A. Philip Randolph (), December 15, 1967 ps. Dear Friend: You are cordially invited to attend a one-day planning con- ference on mobilization of local coalitions to be held in New York City at Loeb Student Center of New York University on January 12, 1968. This is the third of a series of three regional conferences the Coalition is holding in response to requests from local community leadership across the country for assistance in organizing and programming local action counterparts to the national Urban Coalition. Leadership delegations from cities throughout the eastern part of the United States are expected to attend and participate in this meeting. While the major portion of the meeting will be devoted to workshop sessions dealing with the organization and program- ming of local coalition efforts, we will have pertinent addresses from not only the session host, Mayor John V. Lindsay, but national leaders from business, labor, religion and civil rights. We will send you a program announcement shortly and will look forward to seeing you in New York on January 12th. Cordially, (chu » fraud Cyphel sash Andrew Heiskell A. Philip Randolph / Co-chairman Co-chairman National Coordinators. John Feild | Ron M. Linton Telephone 293-7530  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 55 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/741bf2e5308f80bb3226ae8f0d8b7c74.pdf 9f378f7a3b6dd241299fe02348021c94 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. I The Urban Coalition I Federal Bar Building West/ 1819 H Street, N. w. Washington, D. C. / 20006 Steering <;ommittee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell/ A. Philip Randolph November 15, 1967 Dear Steering Committee Member: At the last meeting of the Steering Committee, it was suggested that the Coalition should seriously consider taking a position in opposition to several of the Social Security Amendments already approved by the House of Representatives and now being considered by the Senate. It was suggested that the House Amendments were not only contrary to general and accepted standards of welfare aid and the trend toward raising those standards; but the Amendments, if passed, would result in local governments having to assume an increased share of the costs of the total welfare load. The Steering Committee decided that an analysis should be made of the problem and the House's position and distributed to the members. This has been accomplished and a Fact Sheet and an analysis are enclosed. We have reviewed the Fact Sheet and analysis and concur with the Legislative Committee's estimate of the House amendments as being essentially negative in nature. Testimony before the Hous e Ways and Means Committee makes it clear that segments of the Nation are anxious to reverse the increase in the number of children receiving aid. However, this concern dealt with approaching the problem at the cause s rather than limiting the aid. The main ob jective of Social Security Amendments as o r iginally introduced was to move families toward financial inde p e ndence. The Aid to Familie s with Dependent Chi l dren Program was designe d to k e ep families toge ther . We b e lie v e the r e s trictions impos e d by the House bill a re directly contrary to these two goals. N ational Coordinators : John Feil d / Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 -1530 �Steering Committee - November 15, 1967 Page Two We recommend that the Coalition oppose the House Amendments. Until the Coalition can take formal action on our recommendations, we urge you as an individual to take whatever steps you can to oppose the House Amendments. The Senate Finance Committee has ordered reported its version of the Social Security Bill, an analysis of which will be sent to you as soon as it can be made available. Sincerely, Richard J. Daley John V. Lindsay A. Philip Randolph � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Li The Urban Coalition / Federal Bar Building West | 1819 H Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. [ 20006 Steering Committee Co-chairmen: Andrew Heiskell / A. Philip Randolph November 15, 1967 Dear Steering Committee Member: At the last meeting of the Steering Committee, it was suggested that the Coalition should seriously consider taking a position in opposition to several of the Social Security Amendments already approved by the House of Representatives and now being considered by the Senate. It was suggested that the House Amendments were not only contrary to general and accepted standards of welfare aid and the trend toward raising those standards; but the Amendments, if passed, would result in local governments having to assume an increased share of the costs of the total welfare load. The Steering Committee decided that an analysis should be made of the problem and the House's position and distri- buted to the members. This has been accomplished and a Fact Sheet and an analysis are enclosed. We have reviewed the Fact Sheet and analysis and concur with the Legislative Committee's estimate of the House amendments as being essentially negative in nature. Testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee makes it clearthat segments of the Nation are anxious to reverse the increase in the number of children receiving aid. However, this concern dealt with approaching the problem at the causes rather than limiting the aid. The main objective of Social Security Amendments as originally introduced was to move families toward financial independence. The Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program was designed to keep families together. We believe the restrictions imposed by the House bill are directly contrary to these two goals. National Coordinators: John Feild | Ron M. Linton Telephone 293-1530 Steering Committee - November 15, 1967 Page Two We recommend that the Coalition oppose the House Amend- ments. Until the Coalition can take formal action on our recommendations, we urge you as an individual to take whatever steps you can to oppose the House Amendments. The Senate Finance Committee has ordered reported its version of the Social Security Bill, an analysis of which will be sent to you as soon as it can be made available. Sincerely, Richard J. Daley John V. Lindsay A. Philip Randolph  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 56 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/5b66b6ca811172502c9e636d89fb190d.pdf 63de75936fe32a9d145f2fdd27667089 Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. Prepared by Professor Winifred Bell ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC WELFARE PROVISIONS of HR 12080 The public welfare provisions of H.R. 12080 are intended, according to the House Ways and Means Committee Report {House Report #544), to reduce welfare rolls by encouraging self-support and by reducing the incidence of illegiti~acy. The Bill is a marked departure from the Administration Bill, H.R. 5710, which began a modest· move toward implementing the recommendations of the 1966 Public Welfare Advisory Council, "Having the Power, We Have the Duty."* · The major provisions of H.R. 12080 can be divided into the following areas: WORK PROVISIONS In order to receive federal matching funds for AFDC, state agencies (1) must require that out-of-school youth over 16 and all adults in AFDC families register for employment and accept any bona fide offer of work that they are able to "engage in," even if wages fall below legal minimums; (2) must investigate the employability of every individual in the AFDC caseload at least once yearly; (3) must provide community work and training programs {Section 409 of the Social Security Act, as amended in 1962) throughout the state; and (4) must require that out-of-school youth and adults in AFDC families participate in such work and training programs when employment is not avai lable. Penalties for refusal to work or en a e in trainin without due cause: 1 AFDC payments may be denied or suspended, o r (2) payments may continue in behalf of children only {i.e. no payments to adults) if {a) they are paid to an "interes ted party" who will assure that money is spent only in behalf o f children; or {b) they are converted to vendor rather than cash payments. Some experts interpret the Bill to mean that "refusal to work" is synonymous with child neglect, and that juvenile courts might be p r essur ed to use this as the sole reason f o r a finding of neglect , which in turn, would result in the child's removal from home. This is not what the Bill says, but experience with public assistance laws and regulations shows that they are exploited in some jurisdictions to control fami lies through threat of separation . The major recommendations of the Advisory Council Report: (1) extend aid to all needy persons, irrespective of family composition, employment, etc. through one program; (2) set a national standard of assistance, adjusted only to reflect regional variations in consumer price indexes; (3) establish a legally enforceable right to certain basic social services; (4) finance the program by establishing a reasonable and equitable state share yearly, and meeting all other costs through federal funds. �( 2) Safeguards: (1) for the first time, HEW has responsibility for defining when an adult "is available" for employment, i.e . HEW must set standards (e . g. health, child care arrangements, etc.) for determining who is employable; (2) day care for children must be assured for employed AFDC mothers or those in training programs . (Federal standards for day care are provided). (3) 30 day emergency assistance can be provided when assistance is denied . Relevant facts: A number of states require that assistance be denied or discontinued whenever employment is available, and some others deny aid to ~mployable people whether or not work is available in the area. These provisions are particularly geared toward seasonal labor . The practive of encouraging AFDC mothers to work is widespread, and aid has always been denied in some jurisdictions when welfare workers consider the adult caretaker of children employable. Experience to date with work and training programs provides evidence that many older AFDC youth and adults are not readily employable (about 80 percent), and that to make labor force participation feasible, considerable dental, medical and social services, basic education, and job training are necessary. Day care is in very short supply in the U. S., and it is unlikely that such services can be organized sufficiently promptly to protect children if mothers are quickly forced into work or training. One important chronic reason for high relief rolls is the scarcity of unskilled jobs, so it is possible that H. R. 12080 can only accomplish its self-support goals if the federal government also embarks on a full employment policy, a public works program, or their equivalent. Only 12 states now have statewide community work and training programs, and there is evidence that many states will have difficulty organizing effective statewide programs quickly. ILLEGITIMACY H. R. 12080 intends to reduce the incidence o f illegitimacy by (1) reducing the coverage of absent parent families by AFDC (see p.5 for detailed discussion); (2) encouraging the removal of children from neglectful homes (illegitimacy is cited as particular evidence of neglect; (3) e x tending the circumstances in which foster home care can be reimbursed from federal funds, and increasing federal matching rates; and (4) requiring states to provide statewide family planning services to be brought to the attention of all AFDC mothers or mothers likely to become el igible for AFDC. Safeguards: planning. Mothers are not to be forced to accept family �(3) Relevant facts: The proportion of illegitimate children receiving AFDC is estimated at about 20 percent and has increased in recent years, from 14 percent in 1959. All states have protective statutes in which neglect is defined to include promiscuity and other immoral behavior of parents. Courts have insisted, typically, that a finding of neglect rests upon tangible evidence of gross neglect, and seldom view out-of-wedlock births as sufficient alone. Foster home care is expensive, and at present states pay most of the cost. They have long urged federal participation in these costs. At present, only 26 states have AFDC-foster care programs, covering only 7,900 children. Longitudinal studies show that when families are broken up by the removal of children or the imprisonment of parents for neglect, the majority do not reunite, partially because of the scarcity of social workers to help in the process. The majority of illegitimate children are supported privately, and there is no factual evidence that treating AFDC children as a special group could reduce the overall incidence of illegitimacy; nor is there any evidence that threatening to deny aid or to remove children, or carrying out the threat, reduces the incidence of illegitimacy. AFDC-UP (UNEMPLOYED PARENTS PROGRAM} H.R . 12080 establishes a federal definition of "unemployed parent" , which was previously the province of states . It includes only fathers, · requires a significant attachment to the labor force , imposes a waiting period of 30 days before unemployed fathers could apply for assistance for their families , and e x cludes all famil i es receiving unemployment compensation. Relevant facts: This definition would cause a cut-back in the caseload of all 22 state AFDC - UP p r ograms now in e x istence . At p r esent AFDC covers only about 1/5 of the families b e low the pov e r t y line of $3 , 400 fo r an u r ban fam i l y o f fou r. Th e 1966 Pu b lic Welfare Advi sory Council Repo r t s u ggested e x panding cov e r age to all needy families , irre spec t ive o f emp l o yme nt. H. R. 57 1 0 , t h e Administr ation Bill r e c omme nded mer e ly tha t AFDC- UP be made p e r manen t . NON- SUPPORT PROVISI ONS H.R . 12 0 80 requires that s tate a genci e s o rganize and i mplement programs t o establish p a t e rnity o f illegitima t e childre n and secure support from the ir fath e rs, a nd impleme nt programs to secure support from fathers of abandoned childre n in whose behalf an AFDC grant is sought or given. To this end, federal public welfare funds are to b e us e d to match the costs of n e cessary law enforcement and court services. �( 4) Relevant facts: States have previously been required to notify law enforcement officials whenever aid was requested in behalf of an abandoned child. Previously, public welfare funds have not been available to match the costs of law enforcement agencies or courts, nor has HEW felt it proper for public welfare agencies to take over law enforcement responsibilities. However, welfare workers have always been responsible for verifying and investigating the ability of relatives to support famil~es applying for or receiving AFDC, and this task commonly preoccupies a large share of the workers' time. Vigorous law enforcement does increase support payments; it also discourages families from applying for public aid; and it puts an additional emotional strain on families already severely pressured from many directions. WORK INCENTIVES H.R. 12080 requires that all states disregard all earnings of AFDC youth under 16 years of age, part-time earnings of school youth between 16 and 21, and the first $30, as well as 1/3 of the remaining portion of monthly earnings of adults, whenever agencies are determining the size of the grant for eligible families. Relevant facts: Both the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) and the EOA provide that for persons engaged in projects funded under those Acts, and also receiving public assistance, the first $85 plus one- half of the excess over $85 monthly shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for public assistance. H.R. 5710 provided for "disregarding" $50 monthly of the earnings of children and adults, subject to a family maximum of $150 monthly. Even with this more generous amount, there is an incentive for AFDC families to engage in ESEA or EOA projects rather than to enter the regular labor force. Incentives of this type have proven effective in enabling a nd encouraging employment. The disregarding of earned income provision in H.R. 12080 is applicable only to persons who already are rece iving assistance. Thus, applicants who went to work before appiying for as sistance have all of their income and resources taken into account, while families who have a member who goes t o work from the assistance rolls have their earned income disregarded in the stated amounts. It is, therefore likely, that the provisions could discourage work among potential applicants for AFDC, thus serving to increase the caseload in two ways. �(5) SOCIAL SERVICES H.R. 12080 transfers child welfare services in behalf of AFDC families or families likely to need AFDC from Title V to Title IV of the Social Security Act, and requires that state agencies establish family planning and day care programs, as well as other services intended to enhance the capacity for self-support and to reduce the incidence of illegitimacy. Until July 1, 1969,· the Bill increases federal matching rates for such services from 75 to 85 percent. Services may be organized by public welfare or purchased from voluntary and other agencies, and still receive federal matching. · Advantages: While cost accounting problems will be legion, transferring such services to Title IV (when they are provided to AFDC families or those l i kely to need AFDC) greatly increa ses f e deral funds for statewide social service s, s i nce Title IV grants-in-aid are open-ended and have more generous matching features. However, this change will result in more services only if states are willing and able to raise their share of the cost initially, and since H.R. 12080 i mposes othe r financial burdens on the states, they may not locate fund s fo r this purpose . Purchase of s e rvice s has t he p o t ential for bringing a much wide r scope of quality s e rvice s to very poor families, assuming states can afford to meet the initial cost . Da nger s : Associating social s e r v i ces and financial aid i ncreases the l ikelihood that servic e s wi ll be us e d t o con t r o l fami l ies , f o r c e t h e m i n t o t h e l a bor mark et, etc . rather in the wide varie t y of cons t ructive ways they a re i ntended for. In August 1967 HEW announced a reorgani z a t ion which s e para ted assistance payments from social services i n line wi th the convi cti o n of ma ny e xperts that mi xing the two harmed a n d limited both . The Adv i sory Coun cil Re por t recomme nded t h a t a ll p e ople h a v e a legally ertfo r c e able right to r e c e ive c e rta in bas i c s o cia l ser vic es . The Re port was moo t o n the q uestion o f purchase o f services . Howe ver, the Co unci l c ontemp l a ted t hat s erv i c e s would be o rganize d o n a community- wide b asis, r ath er than f o r AFDC o r o t h er p oo r families as might we ll occur under H. R . 12 0 80. CEILING ON ABSENT PARENT SEGMENT OF AFDC CASELOAD H. R. 1 2 080 prohi bits the use of federa l matching f unds in beha l f of a b sent parent fami l ies* in e x cess o f the number i n state AFDC caseloads a s o f J a nuary 1967 , except a s the i nc reased cas eload reflects the increased gen eral p opu lation in states . States would still be required to assist all eligible families, but when the number exceeded the ceiling, federal matching would no longer be available. �( 6) Relevant facts: Every year more children are being raised by mothers alone, so this segment of child population is growing more rapidly than the child population, generally, or the general population. See Mollie Orshansky, SOCIAL SECURITY BULLETIN, April 1966. Cutting off federal matching shifts the expense of supporting new eligible families to the states as soon as ceilin s are exceeded (which most are by now. Unless states can promptly appropriate additional funds, two adaptations are inevitable: states will reduce their standards of need (the cut-off point that separates needy from other families) so that present funds can cover the rising caseload, or accomplish the same result by decreasing the percentage .of the standard actually paid to families; secondly, they will take steps to restrict eligibility in order to reduce families of all types in the caseload, e.g. instead of following former federal leadership by extending AFDC to school youth up to 21 years of age, they may well reduce age. Since the intent of AFDC is to support very poor families so that children can remain in school, and have a reasonable chance of securing the food, clothes, lodging, and other necessities of life that they need to grow into productive, effective adults, any shift in federal financing that limits the program without providing equivalent alternatives must be viewed in the longrange context. H.R. 12080 provides that states can shift some general assistance cases to AFDC, but statistically this number wili be insignificant as compared with the effect of the ceiling on absent parent families. H.R. 12080 is unlike most SSA amendments in providing no relief to states in terms of higher federal matching for assistance payments, and since payments are low ($36.95 per person monthly), and living costs rise, states must also make adjustments in this area unless they are to fall even further behind the inadequate levels of payment now existing. While federal matching in H.R. 12080 improves remarkably in some service areas and includes others for the first time in the open-ended AFDC reimbursement formulae, as well as covering additional children from general assistance and f o ster home situations , thus freeing some state funds, the new requirements will force many stat e s to spend money for purposes they have hitherto neglected. They may be tempted t o lower standards of need or to pay lower percentages of thei r standards unless they are among the fortunate few where decreases in child population can be anticipated. An "absent parent family" may be a family in which the father is deceased or disabled. Such families would not and do not normally p roduce additional children eligible for assistance. In the main, therefore, this p r ovision is directed toward illigitimate children and the t e rm, in this sense, becomes a legal euphemism. �( 7) To prevent this possibility, H.R. 12080 would have to include provisions to prohibit states from lowering standards of need or the percentages of their standards actually paid to families, and require that they maintain at least the present ratio of the standard to some given cost of living index. Freezing the absent father caseload will discourage states from extending age limits in AFDC for school children up to 21 years of age, providing services to more "potentially dependent" families, or otherwise following federal leadership in widening eligibility. Conversely, it may encourage them to restrict eligibility . Over the years federal leadership and the concern of the U.S. Congress have resulted in extending eligibility for assistance and services, so that family breakdown, continued dependence, and other social ills would not be encouraged by AFDC. Although some states were well in advance and others followed promptly, many lag in adopting possible extensions. Whenever definitions or other provisions cut across the entire caseload, and a ceiling is placed on the most populous type of family in the caseload, the ceiling itself will act as a strong deterrent to extending the program. Age, e x emptions of earned income, ~rvices to "potentially dependent" families all fall into this category as do other provisions. Each would serve, if adopted, to increase all types of families in the caseload. Indeed, so far as exemptions of part of earned income are concerned, it seemsinherently illogical to add a requirement that canmthelp but increase the caseload and to fix a ceiling on that caseload simultaneously. But even with the optional e x tensions, presumably Congress felt these were desirable preventive steps and wished states to follow its leadership. Since most states will now have e x ceeded the January 1967 ceiling, they may shortly be thinking of restricting , not e xtending, elibility . If this happens, the caseload may soon include few older youth, and alternative national programs will have to be devis ed to assist y outh in securing the very educati o n al and employment p r eparation that H.R. 12080 so emphasizes. It should be pointed out that there is no magic in recipient rates as of January 1967. AFDC has always covered only a fraction o f very poor children in the U.S. Nor is there any magic in the numbers of chi ldren in the AFDC caseload by reason of their dependency or family composition. Some states made great effort to relieve childhood poverty whatever its cause; others did not; some managed to be quite �( 8) selective, preferring certain types of families to others. A state like Mississippi with its high recipient rates will suffer less with the "freeze". But children in Georgia, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Texas, for instance, where recipient rates are low and the incidence of childhood poverty high, will suffer remarkably. On September 30, 1966 only Arkansas among the above stat~s had extended eligibility to children up to 21 in the event that they were in certain types of schools. The states on that date that had no immediate plan or capacity to implement either the 1964 or 1965 federal age extensions for school youth included Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and Texas. Since such children comprise the largest share of AFDC caseloads, the amount o f money involved will be very large. � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Prepared by Professor Winifred Bell ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC WELFARE PROVISIONS of HR 12080 The public welfare provisions of H.R. 12080 are intended, accord- ing to the House Ways and Means Committee Report (House Report #544), to reduce welfare rolls by encouraging self-support and by reducing the incidence of illegitimacy. The Bill is a marked departure from the Administration Bill, H.R. 5710, which began a modest move toward implementing the recommendations of the 1966 Public Welfare Advisory Council, “Having the Power, We Have the Duty."* The major provisions of H.R. 12080 can be divided into the following areas: WORK PROVISIONS In order to receive federal matching funds for AFDC, state agencies (1) must require that out-of-school youth over 16 and all adults in AFDC families register for employment and accept any bona fide offer of work that they are able to "engage in," even if wages fall below legal minimums; (2) must investigate the employability of every individual in the AFDC caseload at least once yearly; (3) must provide community work and training programs (Section 409 of the Social Security Act, as amended in 1962) throughout the state; and (4) must require that out-of-school youth and adults in AFDC families participate in such work and training programs when employ- ment is not available. Penalties for refusal to work or engage in training programs without due cause: (1) AFDC payments may be denied or sus- pended; or (2) payments may continue in behalf of children only (i.e. no payments to adults) if (a) they are paid to an "interested party" who will assure that money is spent only in behalf of children; or (b) they are converted to vendor rather than cash payments. Some experts interpret the Bill to mean that "refusal to work" is synonymous with child neglect, and that juvenile courts might be pressured to use this as the sole reason for a finding of neglect, which in turn, would result in the child's removal from home. This is not what the Bill says, but experience with public assistance laws and regulations shows that they are exploited in some jurisdictions to control families through threat of separation. * The major recommendations of the Advisory Council Report: (1) extend aid to all needy persons, irrespective of family composition, employment, etc. through one program; (2) set a national standard of assistance, adjusted only to reflect re- gional variations in consumer price indexes; (3) establish a legally enforceable right to certain basic social services; (4) finance the program by establishing a reasonable and equi- table state share yearly, and meeting all other costs through federal funds. (2) Safeguards: (1) for the first time, HEW has responsibility for defining when an adult "is available" for employment, i.e. HEW must set standards (e.g. health, child care arrange- ments, etc.) for determining who is employable; (2) day care for children must be assured for employed AFDC mothers or those in training programs. (Federal standards for day care are provided). (3) 30 day emergency assistance can be pro- vided when assistance is denied. Relevant facts: A number of states require that assistance be denied or discontinued whenever employment is available, and some others deny aid to employable people whether or not work is available in the area. These provisions are particu- larly geared toward seasonal labor. The practive of encour- aging AFDC mothers to work is widespread, and aid has always been denied in some jurisdictions when welfare workers con- Sider the adult caretaker of children employable. Experience to date with work and training programs provides evidence that many older AFDC youth and adults are not readily employ- able (about 80 percent), and that to make labor force parti- Clipation feasible, considerable dental, medical and social services, basic education, and job training are necessary. Day care is in very short supply in the U. S., and it is un- likely that such services can be organized sufficiently promptly to protect children if mothers are quickly forced into work or training. One important chronic reason for high relief rolls is the scarcity of unskilled jobs, so it is possible that H. R. 12080 can only accomplish its self-support goals if the federal government also embarks on a full employ- ment policy, a public works program, or their equivalent. Only 12 states now have statewide community work and training programs, and there is evidence that many states will have difficulty organizing effective statewide programs quickly. ILLEGITIMACY H. R. 12080 intends to reduce the incidence of illegitimacy by (1) reducing the coverage of absent parent families by AFDC (see p-5 for detailed discussion); (2) encouraging the removal of children from neglectful homes (illegitimacy is cited as parti- cular evidence of neglect; (3) extending the circumstances in which foster home care can be reimbursed from federal funds, and increasing federal matching rates; and (4) requiring states to provide statewide family planning services to be brought to the attention of all AFDC mothers or mothers likely to become eligible for AFDC. Safeguards: Mothers are not to be forced to accept family planning.  (3) Relevant facts: The proportion of illegitimate children receiving AFDC is estimated at about 20 percent and has increased in recent years, from 14 percent in 1959. All states have protective statutes in which neglect is defined to include promiscuity and other immoral behavior of parents. Courts have insisted, typically, that a finding of neglect rests upon tangible evidence of gross neglect, and seldom view out-of-wedlock births as sufficient alone. Foster home care is expensive, and at present states pay most of the cost. They have long urged federal participation in these costs. At present, only 26 states have AFDC-foster care programs, covering only 7,900 children. Longitudinal studies show that when families are broken up by the re- moval of children or the imprisonment of parents for neglect, the majority do not reunite, partially because of the scarcity of social workers to help in the process. The majority of illegitimate children are supported privately, and there is no factual evidence that treating AFDC children as a special group could reduce the overall incidence of illegitimacy; nor is there any evidence that threatening to deny aid or to remove children, or carrying out the threat, reduces the incidence of illegitimacy. AFDC-UP (UNEMPLOYED PARENTS PROGRAM) H.R. 12080 establishes a federal definition of "unemployed parent", which was previously the province of states. It includes only fathers, requires a significant attachment to the labor force, imposes a waiting period of 30 days before unemployed fathers could apply for assistance for their families, and excludes all families receiving unemployment compensation. Relevant facts: This definition would cause a cut-back in the caseload of all 22 state AFDC-UP programs now in exist- ence. At present AFDC covers only about 1/5 of the families below the poverty line of $3,400 for an urban family of four. The 1966 Public Welfare Advisory Council Report suggested expanding coverage to all needy families, irrespec- tive of employment. H. R. 5710, the Administration Bill recommended merely that AFDC-UP be made permanent. NON-SUPPORT PROVISIONS H.R. 12080 requires that state agencies organize and implement programs to establish paternity of illegitimate children and secure support from their fathers, and implement programs to secure support from fathers of abandoned children in whose behalf an AFDC grant is sought or given. To this end, federal public welfare funds are to be used to match the costs of ne- cessary law enforcement and court services. (4) Relevant facts: States have previously been required to notify law enforcement officials whenever aid was requested in behalf of an abandoned child. Previously, public welfare funds have not been available to match the costs of law enforcement agencies or courts, nor has HEW felt it proper for public welfare agencies to take over law enforcement responsibilities. However, welfare workers have always been responsible for verifying and investigating the ability of relatives to support families applying for or receiving AFDC, and this task commonly preoccupies a large share of the workers' time. Vigorous law enforcement does increase Support payments; it also discourages families from applying for public aid; and it puts an additional emotional strain on families already severely pressured from many directions. WORK INCENTIVES H.R. 12080 requires that all states disregard all earnings of AFDC youth under 16 years of age, part-time earnings of school youth between 16 and 21, and the first $30, as well as 1/3 of the remaining portion of monthly earnings of adults, whenever agencies are determining the size of the grant for eligible families. Relevant facts: Both the ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) and the EOA provide that for persons engaged in projects funded under those Acts, and also receiving public assistance, the first $85 plus one-half of the excess over $85 monthly shall be disregarded for purposes of deter- mining eligibility for public assistance. H.R. 5710 provided for "disregarding" $50 monthly of the earnings of children and adults, subject to a family maximum of $150 monthly. Even with this more generous amount, there is an incentive for AFDC families to engage in ESEA or EOA projects rather than to enter the regular labor force. Incentives of this type have proven effective in enabling and encouraging employment. The disregarding of earned income provision in H.R. 12080 is applicable only to persons who already are receiving assistance. Thus, applicants who went to work before applying for assistance have all of their income and resources taken into account, while families who have a member who goes to work from the assistance rolls have their earned income disregarded in the stated amounts. It is, therefore likely, that the provisions could discourage work among potential applicants for AFDC, thus serving to increase the caseload in two ways. (5) SOCIAL SERVICES H.R. 12080 transfers child welfare services in behalf of AFDC families or families likely to need AFDC from Title V to Title IV of the Social Security Act, and requires that state agencies establish family planning and day care programs, as well as other services intended to enhance the capacity for self-support and to reduce the incidence of illegitimacy. Until July 1, 1969, the Bill increases federal matching rates for such services from 75 to 85 percent. Services may be organized by public welfare or purchased from voluntary and other agencies, and still receive federal matching. Advantages: While cost accounting problems will be legion, transferring such services to Title IV (when they are pro- vided to AFDC families or those likely to need AFDC) greatly increases federal funds for statewide social services, since Title IV grants-in-aid are open-ended and have more generous matching features. However, this change will result in more services only if states are willing and able to raise their share of the cost initially, and since H.R. 12080 imposes other financial burdens on the states, they may not locate funds for this purpose. Purchase of services has the poten- tial for bringing a much wider scope of quality services to very poor families, assuming states can afford to meet the initial cost. Dangers: Associating social services and financial aid increases the likelihood that services will be used to control families, force them into the labor market, etc. rather in the wide variety of constructive ways they are intended for. In August 1967 HEW announced a reorganization which separated assistance payments from social services in line with the conviction of many experts that mixing the two harmed and limited both. The Advisory Council Report recommended that all people have a legally enforceable right to receive certain basic social services. The Report was moot on the guestion of purchase of services. However, the Council contemplated that services would be organized on a community-wide basis, rather than for AFDC or other poor families as might well occur under H.R. 12080. CEILING ON ABSENT PARENT SEGMENT OF AFDC CASELOAD H.R. 12080 prohibits the use of federal matching funds in behalf of absent parent families* in excess of the number in state AFDC caseloads as of January 1967, except as the increased caseload reflects the increased general population in states. States would still be required to assist all eligible families, but when the number exceeded the ceiling, federal matching would no longer be available. (6) Relevant facts: Every year more children are being raised by mothers alone, so this segment of child population is growing more rapidly than the child population, generally, or the general population. See Mollie Orshansky, SOCIAL SECURITY BULLETIN, April 1966. Cutting off federal match- ing shifts the expense of supporting new eligible families to the states as soon as ceilings are exceeded (which most are by now). Unless states can promptly appropriate addi- tional funds, two adaptations are inevitable: states will reduce their standards of need (the cut-off point that separates needy from other families) so that present funds can cover the rising caseload, or accomplish the same result by decreasing the percentage of the standard actually paid to families; secondly, they will take steps to restrict eligibility in order to reduce families of all types in the caseload, e.g. instead of following former federal leader- ship by extending AFDC to school youth up to 21 years of age, they may well reduce age. Since the intent of AFDC is to support very poor families so that children can remain in school, and have a reasonable chance of securing the food, clothes, lodging, and other necessities of life that they need to grow into productive, effective adults, any shift in federal financing that limits the program without pro- viding equivalent alternatives must be viewed in the long- range context. H.R. 12080 provides that states can shift some general assistance cases to AFDC, but statistically this number will be insignificant as compared with the effect of the ceiling on absent parent families. H.R. 12080 is unlike most SSA amendments in providing no relief to states in terms of higher federal matching for assistance payments, and since payments are low ($36.95 per person monthly), and living costs rise, states must also make adjustments in this area unless they are to fall even further behind the inadequate levels of payment now exist- ing. While federal matching in H.R. 12080 improves remarkably in some service areas and includes others for the first time in the open-ended AFDC reimbursement formulae, as well as covering additional children from general assistance and foster home situations, thus freeing some state funds, the new requirements will force many states to spend money for purposes they have hitherto neglected. They may be tempted to lower standards of need or to pay lower percentages of their standards unless they are among the fortunate few where decreases in child population can be anticipated. *An "absent parent family" may be a family in which the father is deceased or disabled. Such families would not and do not normally produce additional children eligible for assistance. In the main, therefore, this provision is directed toward illigitimate children and the term, in this sense, becomes a legal euphemism. (7) To prevent this possibility, H.R. 12080 would have to include provisions to prohibit states from lowering standards of need or the percentages of their standards actually paid to families, and require that they maintain at least the present ratio of the standard to some given cost of living index. Freezing the absent father caseload will discourage states from extending age limits in AFDC for school children up to 21 years of age, providing services to more "potentially dependent" fami- lies, or otherwise following federal leadership in widening eligibility. Conversely, it may encourage them to restrict eligibility. Over the years federal leadership and the concern of the U.S. Congress have resulted in extending eligibility for assistance and services, so that family breakdown, con- tinued dependence, and other social ills would not be encouraged by AFDC. Although some states were well in advance and others followed promptly, many lag in adopting possible extensions. Whenever definitions or other provisions cut across the entire caseload, and a ceiling is placed on the most populous type of family in the caseload, the ceiling itself will act as a strong deterrent to extending the program. Age, exemptions of earned income, services to "potentially dependent" families all fall into this category as do other provisions. Each would serve, if adopted, to increase all types of families in the case- load. Indeed, so far as exemptions of part of earned income are concerned, it seemsinherently illogical to add a requirement that cannothelp but increase the caseload and to fix a ceiling on that caseload simultaneously. But even with the optional extensions, presumably Congress felt these were desirable preventive steps and wished states to follow its leadership. Since most states will now have exceeded the January 1967 ceiling, they may shortly be thinking of restricting, not extending, elibility. If this happens, the caseload may soon include few older youth, and alternative national programs will have to be devised to assist youth in securing the very educational and employment preparation that H.R. 12080 so emphasizes. It should be pointed out that there is no magic in recipient rates as of January 1967. AFDC has always covered only a fraction of very poor children in the U.S. Nor is there any magic in the numbers of children in the AFDC caseload by reason of their dependency or family composition. Some states made great effort to relieve childhood poverty what- ever its cause; others did not; some managed to be quite (8) selective, preferring certain types of families to others. A state like Mississippi with its high recipient rates will suffer less with the "freeze". But children in Georgia, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Texas, for instance, where recipient rates are low and the incidence of childhood poverty high, will suffer remarkably. On September 30, 1966 only Arkansas among the above states had extended eligibility to children up to 21 in the event that they were in certain types of schools. The states on that date that had no immediate plan or capacity to imple- ment either the 1964 or 1965 federal age extensions for school youth included Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Dela- ware, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oregon, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, and Texas. Since such children com- prise the largest share of AFDC caseloads, the amount of money involved will be very large.  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 57 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/98f1d400d2ff4e13d9139d3f6cb864f3.pdf 8a3408e0b18a9d50cec507146b6a251e Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. • FACTS AND COMMENTS ON THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENTS OF 1967 INTRODUCTION: The following is a comparison of the Administration's proposals _ for amending the Social Security Act and the amendments to that Act passed by the House of Representatives. This analysis will be limited to major issues and policy variables i n the areas of social security, medicare, medicaid, and public assistance . Social Security and Public Assistance Background: Social Security constitutes a wage-related income insurance program to guard against loss of income due to death, disability or old age of a wage earner. Be n efi ts are the right of the wage earner, his spouse, or his children , d e p ending on the need situation of any one or combination of two or more possible beneficiaries . Benefits are paid as a matter of right and specific taxes are collected in a relatively progressive manner to fund the program. The tax does not take, nor does the benefit structure give, an amount totally adequate to meet all the financial needs gene ra ted t hrough death, disability or old- age. It does, however , provide a basic "floor of protection" on which the majority of the Ameri can people can build a financia l ly secure future . Public Assis tan ce , has neither the contributory nor the ea r ned r ight aspe cts o f s ocia l secu r ity . It is pa i d on the basis of n eed de f ined by statute and admin i strat ive r egulation . The £ ecip i e n ts o f public assistance are such beca use of the conscience of , r ath e r than their contribu t i o ns to s ociety . The r e f o r e , Fe d eral , s ta t e , and local governments have s et down a n d enforce ce r tain mode s o f b ehavior on the part of recip ients wh ich wil l preve n t the abu s e of public assistance laws and wo rk to mov e , whe nev er poss ible , r ec ip ients up from welfare to more prod uctive pla ces in soc ie t y. Philosophically, these enforced behavioral modes, or welfare ru l es, are s e t down not only to help those persons on th e welfare rolls, but also to limit the burden they place on the more fortunate, more productive members of the society. The Social Security Act deals with both the Federal social security system and the Federal contributory and management aspects of public assistance . �I. FACTS AND COMMENTS - SOCIAL SECURITY Administration Proposed 1. (H.R. 5710) House of Representatives (H.R.12680) Passed Benefit Increases General Benefit Increase of 15% Minimum benefit of $70 General benefit increase of 12-1/2% Minimum benefit of $50 Benefit increase for persons 72 and over, from $35 to $50 for singles; from $52.50 to $75 for couples. Benefit increase for persons 72 and over, from $35 to $40, for singles; from $52.50 to $60 for couples. Special minimum benefit for long-term employment--$100 minimum for 25 years work. No provision Benefits for disabled widows-82-1/2% of workers benefit for those disabled within 7 years of husband's death. Benefits for severely disabled widows age 50 and over paying from 500/4 to 71% depending on age at onset of disability. Comment: Both sets of benefit increases actuarially sound under the tax increase schedUle in the respective bills. However , the urban and suburban beneficiary po~ulation has experienced the phenomena of combined inflation, population explosion, and resultant property tax increases. One but need look at the mortgage foreclosures in reti rement areas such as Dade County, Florida, to realize the impact of this combination on persons with fixe d incomes. It has outstripped the planning a nd saving of much of the beneficiary population. Near adequate benefit increases help not only their recipients but the communities in which they live and the businesses and individuals t hose communities tax. Actuarially sound increases: (a) reduce welfare payment at the local level, (b) reduce existing welfare c aseloads, (c) prevent new processing of welfare clients , and (d) h elp maintain the aged, the disabled, and the widowed in viable economic units that are tax- paying and not tax- taking . (2) �2. SOCIAL SECURITY TAX INCREASE (INCLUDING MEDICARE} Year Present Law 1967 4.4 1968 4.4 1969- 70 1971-72 4.9 4.9 1973-75 5.4 By 1987 5.65 Comment: 3. . Administration (H.R. 5710) 4.4 (wage base $6600) 4.4 (wage base $7800) 5.0 5.0 (wage base $9,000) 5.5 (wage base $10,800) 5.8 House of R.epresentatives (H.R. 12080) 4.4 (wage base $6600) 4.4 (wage base $7600) 4.8 5.2 5.65 5.9 The Administration proposal compared with the House bill: (a) provides a more progressive tax, (b) provides a lower ultimate tax rate f or both employer and employee, (c) spreads the tax for both employer and employee in the majority of cases by taxing wages above those usually paid in industry, MEDICARE (a) Depreciation allowance - hospitals Administration (H.R. 5710 ) Require full loading in d e p r eciati on of capital and physic al plant when ing s ystem is i n a ccor d mended State p lan . costs of equipment cost accountwith r e c om- House of Representatives (H.R. 12080) No provision Comment : La ck of a prov i s ion mea ns taxpayer s (for municipal.hospitals and payers of ins urance p remi ums (for a ll hos pitals) carry the depreciation loads for medicare recipients. The Administration proposal provides both a real istic overhead loading mechanism and an i n centive to apply modern accounting and cost effectiveness techniques in an area which has long burdened c ities, employers, and o t hers who must pay for hospital services . (3) �(b) Tax Rate Administration (H.R. 5710) House of Representatives (H.R. 12080) No provision Increase tax rate by 0.1% on employer and employee above present schedule beginning 1969. Comment: The cost of the various liberalizations of medicare suggested in the House bill can not be determined until the medicare program has had time to work. Tax adjustment can be made as actual experience determi nes. II. FACTS AND COMMENTS - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (WELFARE) Administration (H.R. 5710) House of Representatives (H. R. 12080) (a) Assistance payments No provision Re qui res states to meet full need a s the y determi ne it with some additional financial aid. Cash assistance standards must be at least 2/3 of income level s fo r medical ass i sta nce. (b) Wo r k incentives Requires states to allow $50 Requires states to allow $30 monthly income without r educ ~ mo nthly i n c ome without r educti o n i n a ss i stance . Fo r each t i on in a ssis tance f o r AFDC adul ts. additional $ 3 earned, assistance would be r educed $ 2 . (c) Community work and training Requ ires States to u se wo rk and training programs provided by Dept. of Labor for all appropriat e AFDC recipients. Requires stat es to establish community work and training programs (75% Federal matching) for v irtually al l appropriate AFDC adults and children over 16 not attending school to be administered by welfare agencies. (d) Unemployed parent program Makes permanent present provisions. (4) Covers children of unemployed fathers only. Unemployment definition requires substantial prior connection with the labor force, excludes recipients of unemployment compensation. �In addition to the above, the House bill included provisions not proposed by the Administration. These include requiring states to: (a) develop employment programs for AFDC families where appropriate; (b) provide day care for AFDC mothers working or training; (c) provide family planning services; (d) attempt to determine paternity and obtain support from the father; (e) inform courts of unsuitable homes, one criterion of which is a parent who refused employment or training; and (f) freeze the rate of child dependency due to absence of parent as of January 1967 for purposes of Federal matching. Comment : The major purpose of the House bill is to increase employment and training of welfare recipients and thereby reduce p r ogram costs . The House approach would: 1 . Combine responsibility for payment , social services, training , and j ob placement within one agency. A single agency and , more practically , a single caseworker, would have the right to wi thhold payment if a family does not take what that caseworker deems " appropri ate 11 action with regard to training , employment , famil y plan ni ng , and liv i ng arrangement. 2. Dup licate g ove r nment functions through the placement of respo ns ibi l i t y fo r train ing i n an a g ency unprepar ed to handle it. The We lfa r e Admin i s trat i on has r u n limi ted t r a i n ing prog rams for we l f ar e c li e n ts in t he past , but a l ways with a n e nro l lme nt o f less than 50 , 000 . Unde r the Hous e passed b i l l it wi l l b e ma ndatory by 196 9 for that o r gan i z ation a nd i ts sta t e counterparts to be prepare d t o handl e 500 , 000 t rainees annually. A more prac tical approach would be to add a n ew are a of emphasis to ongoing programs of the Manpower Administration of the Labor Department than to build a who l e n ew bure aucracy. - 5- �\ 3. Economic impact of Corrununity training programs. The House Ways and Means Corrunittee estimates a saving by 1972 of $130 million "for persons trained who become self-sufficient". This is 7% of the 1972 program cost, indicating a reduction in the rolls of · approximately that number of recipients. However, that same Corrunittee estimates that the 1972 cost of day-care for children whose mothers are in the work and training program will.be $470 million and that the program itself will cost another $270 million. This $695 million is more than five times the savings in welfare payments. 4. Increase in state and local costs by imposing an AFDC ceiling. Freezing proportionately the number of AFDC children eligible for Federal matching monies does not take into account either the possibility of changing economic conditions or heavy in-migration into certain states. Either occurance would result in the states being forced to bear the entire burden of increased AFDC costs. The alternatives to increased burden on the taxpayer are to make eligibility requirements more stringent or to lower benefits even further. The prime victim in either situation is the child of the AFDC family and, ultimately, the society he enters. III FACTS AND COMMENTS - MEDICAID . Administration (H.R. 5710) 1. Limitation on Federal Matching Funds No Federal matching for families whose income exceeds 150% of the highest state cash standard 2. House of Repres entatives (H.R . 12080) No Federal matching for families whose income is more than 133% of the highest cash assistance payment ordinarily made to family or AFDC Required Services No provision - maintains schedule of required services - 6- Removes graduated services requirement and allows states to provide any 7 of the 14 medical services listed in the Act. �Comment: The House amendments J aise eligibility requirements and lower service standards. By setting eligibility at cash payment levels instead of required services levels, the bill denies coverage to those marginal poor who are functioning as independent economic units except for medical care support. This increases the probability of their going on welfare roles at the time of their first medical crisis. By removing current service requirements, the bill allows elimination of such items as physician services and in-patient hospital care. This means that cities and states th3.t already offer these services are penalized for their progress by forcing them to carry the full cost of such services. Although the Federal government would save by these amendments, the cities would still have to provide adequate medical services. The reduction in Federal funds and required supplement through city funds in New York City alone would be $70 million in fiscal 1 69. Communities penalized in other progressive states would include those in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. - 7- � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document FACTS AND COMMENTS ON THE MAJOR PROVISIONS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENTS OF 1967 INTRODUCTION: The following is a comparison of the Administration's proposals for amending the Social Security Act and the amendments to that Act passed by the House of Representatives. This analysis will be limited to major issues and policy variables in the areas of social security, medicare, medicaid, and public assistance. Social Security and Public Assistance Background: Social Security constitutes a wage-related income insurance program to guard against loss of income due to death, disability or old age of a wage earner. Benefits are the right of the wage earner, his spouse, or his children, depending on the need situation of any one or combination of two or more possible beneficiaries. Benefits are paid as a matter of right and specific taxes are collected in a relatively progressive manner to fund the program. The tax does not take, nor does the benefit structure give, an amount totally adequate to meet all the financial needs generated through death, disability or old-age. It does, however, provide a basic "floor of protection" on which the majority of the American people can build a financially secure future. Public Assistance, has neither the contributory nor the earned right aspects of social security. It is paid on the basis of need defined by statute and administrative regulation. The cecipients of public assistance are such because of the conscience of, rather than their contributions to society. Therefore, Federal, state, and local governments have set down and enforce certain modes of behavior on the part of recipients which will prevent the abuse of public assis- tance laws and work to move, whenever possible, recipients up from welfare to more productive places in society. Philosophically, these enforced behavioral modes, or welfare rules, are set down not only to help those persons on the welfare rolls, but also to limit the burden they place on the more fortunate, more productive members of the society. The Social Security Act deals with both the Federal social security system and the Federal contributory and management aspects of public assistance. I. _FACTS AND COMMENTS - SOCIAL SECURITY Administration (H.R. 5710) House of Representatives (H.R.12680) Proposed Passed 1. Benefit Increases General Benefit Increase of 15% General benefit increase of 12-1/2% Minimum benefit of $70 Minimum benefit of $50 Benefit increase for persons Benefit increase for persons 72 72 and over, from $35 to $50 for and over, from $35 to $40, for singles; from $52.50 to $75 for singles; from $52.50 to $60 for couples. couples. Special minimum benefit for No provision long-term employment--$100 minimum for 25 years work. Benefits for disabied widows-- Benefits for severely disabled 82-1/2% of workers benefit for widows age 50 and over paying those disabled within 7 years of from 50% to 71% depending on husband's death. age at onset of disability. Comment: Both sets of benefit increases actuarially sound under the tax increase schedule in the respective bills. However, the urban and suburban heneficiary population has experi- enced the phenomena of combined inflation, population explosion, and resultant property tax increases. One but need look at the mort- gage foreclosures in retirement areas such as Dade County, Florida, to realize the impact of this combination on persons with fixed incomes. It has outstripped the planning and saving of much of the beneficiary population. Near adequate benefit increases help not only their recipients but the communities in which they live and the businesses and individuals those communities tax. Actuarially sound increases: (a) reduce welfare payment at the local level, (b) reduce existing welfare caseloads, (c) prevent new processing of welfare clients, and (d) help maintain the aged, the disabled, and the widowed in viable economic units that are tax-paying and not tax-taking. (2) 2. SOCIAL SECURITY TAX INCREASE (INCLUDING MEDICARE) Year Present Administration House of Representatives Law (H.R. 5710) (H.R. 12080) 1967 4.4 4.4 (wage base 4.4 (wage base $6600) $6600) 1968 4.4 4.4 (wage base 4.4 (wage base $7600) $7800) 1969-70 4.9 5.0 4.8 1971-72 4.9 5.0 (wage base 5.2 $9,000) 1973-75 5.4 5.5 (wage base 5.65 $10,800) By 1987 5.65 5.8 59 Comment: The Administration proposal compared with the House bill: (a) provides a more progressive tax, (b) provides a lower ultimate tax rate for both employer and employee, (c) spreads the tax for both employer and employee in the majority of cases by taxing wages above those usually paid in industry ® 3. MEDICARE (a) Depreciation allowance - hospitals Administration (H.R. 5710) House of Representatives (H.R. 12080) Require full loading in costs of depreciation of capital equipment No provision and physical plant when cost account- ing system is in accord with recom- mended State plan. Comment: Lack of a provision means taxpayers (for municipal. hospitals and payers of insurance premiums (for all hospitals) carry the de- preciation loads for medicare recipients. The Administration pro- posal provides both a realistic overhead loading mechanism and an incentive to apply modern accounting and cost effectiveness tech- niques in an area which has long burdened cities, employers, and others who must pay for hospital services. (3) (b) Tax Rate Administration (H.R. 5710) House of Representatives (H.R. 12080) No provision Increase tax rate by 0.1% on employer Comment: and employee above present schedule beginning 1969. The cost of the various liberalizations of medicare suggested in the House bill can not be determined until the medi- care program has had time to work. Tax adjustment can be made as actual experience determines. II. FACTS AND COMMENTS - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (WELFARE) Administration (H.R. 5710) House of Representatives (a) (b) (c) (d) (H.R. 12080) Assistance payments Requires states to meet No provision full need as they determine it with some additional financial aid. Cash assistance standards must be at least 2/3 of income levels for medical assistance. Work incentives Requires states to allow $50 Requires states to allow $30 monthly income without reduc- monthly income without reduction tion in assistance for AFDC in assistance. For each adults. additional $3 earned, assistance would be reduced $2. Community work and training Requires States to use work Requires states to establish and training programs pro- community work and training pro- vided by Dept. of Labor for grams (75% Federal matching) for all appropriate AFDC recip- virtually all appropriate ients. AFDC adults and children over 16 not attending school to be administered by welfare agencies. Unemployed parent program ‘Makes permanent present Covers children of unemployed provisions. fathers only. Unemployment definition requires substantial prior connection with the labor force, excludes recipients of un- (4) employment compensation. In addition to the above, the House bill included provisions not proposed by the Administration. These include requiring states to: (a) develop employment programs for AFDC families where appropriate; (b) provide day care for AFDC mothers working or training; (c) provide family planning services; (d) attempt to determine paternity and obtain support from the father; (e) inform courts of unsuitable homes, one criterion of which is a parent who refused employment or training; and (f) freeze the rate of child dependency due to absence of parent as of January 1967 for purposes of Federal matching. Comment: The major purpose of the House bill is to increase employment and training of welfare recipients and thereby reduce program costs. The House approach would: 1. Combine responsibility for payment, social services, training, and job placement within one agency. A single agency and, more practically, a single caseworker, would have the right to withhold payment if a family does not take what that caseworker deems "appropriate" action with regard to training, employment, family planning, and living arrangement. 2. Duplicate government functions through the placement of responsibility for training in an agency unprepared to handle it. The Welfare Administration has run limited training programs for welfare clients in the past, but always with an enrollment of less than 50,000. Under the House passed bill it will be manda- tory by 1969 for that organization and its state counterparts to be prepared to handle 500,000 trainees annually. A more prac- tical approach would be to add a new area of emphasis to on- going programs of the Manpower Administration of the Labor Depart- ment than to build a whole new bureaucracy. 3. Economic impact of Community training programs. The House Ways and Means Committee estimates a saving by 1972 of $130 million "for persons trained who become self-sufficient". This is 7% of the 1972 program cost, indicating a reduction in the rolls of approximately that number of recipients. However, that same Committee estimates that the 1972 cost of day-care for children whose mothers are in the work and training program willbe $470 million and that the program itself will cost another $270 million. This $695 million is more than five times the savings in welfare payments. 4. Increase in state and local costs by imposing an AFDC ceiling. Freezing proportionately the number of AFDC children eligible for Federal matching monies does not take into account either the pos- sibility of changing economic conditions or heavy in-migration into certain states. Either occurance would result in the states being forced to bear the entire burden of increased AFDC costs. The alter- natives to increased burden on the taxpayer are to make eligibility requirements more stringent or to lower benefits even further. The prime victim in either situation is the child of the AFDC family and, ultimately, the society he enters. III FACTS AND COMMENTS - MEDICAID Administration (H.R. 5710) House of Representatives (H.R. 12080) 1. Limitation on Federal Matching Funds No Federal matching for families whose income exceeds 150% of the highest state cash standard 2. Required Services No provision - maintains schedule of required services No Federal matching for families whose income is more than 133% of the high- est cash assistance pay- ment ordinarily made to family or AFDC Removes graduated services requirement and allows states to provide any 7 of the 14 medical services listed in the Act. Comment: The House amendments raise lower service standards. By setting instead of required services levels, marginal poor who are functioning as cept for medical care support. This eligibility requirements and eligibility at cash payment levels the bill denies coverage to those independent economic units ex- increases the probability of their going on welfare roles at the time of their first medical crisis. By removing current service requirements, the bill allows elimination of such items as physician services and in-patient hospital care. This means that cities and states tmt already offer these services are penalized for their progress by forcing them to carry the full cost of such services. Although the Federal government would save by these amendments, the cities would still have to provide adequate medical services. The reduction in Federal funds and required supplement through city funds in New York City alone would be $70 million in fiscal '69. Communities penalized in other progressive states would include those in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Oklahoma, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Tllinois, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Rhode Island  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 58 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968 https://ivanallen.iac.gatech.edu/mayoral-records/traditional/files/original/2ee44c7cd017078f70c990e6e86b487a.pdf 4710fbe50a435d79a09e196841b164ea Scripto Transcription A written representation of a document. September 29, 1967 TASK FORCE ROSTER TASK FORCE ON LOCAL COALITIONS CO-CHAIRMEN: PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Arnold Aronson Lead e rship Conference on Civil Rights Joseph Rauh 1001 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D. C. Mayor Joseph Barr Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Aldo Colaritti Mayor's Office, City Hall Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Charles P . Taft , Esq. Cincinnati , Ohio Not yet designated · STAFF COORDINATOR : Chris Mould TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT EXPANSION PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: CO-CHAIRMEN: Ger a ld L . Ph i llippe , Chai rman of the Boar d General Ele c tri c Company William C. Hart General El ectric Comp any 570 Lexington Avenue New York, New York John Wheel e r, Pr esident Me chanics and Farmers Bank Vernon Jordon Southern Regi ona l Council 5 For s yth e Stre e t , N. W. At lan t a, Ge orgia David Sulliv an , Presi dent Building Se rvice Emp loyes Int e rnationa l Un i on An t h ony Weinl ein 900 17th St reet , N. W. Wash i ng ton , D. C. STAFF COORDINATOR : Mel Cotton TASK FORCE ON RECONS TRUCTION AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT CO-CHAI RMEN: Walter Reuther, Pr esident United Auto Worke r s PARTI CIPATI NG REPRESENTATIVES: Jack Conway I nt e rnational Union Department 815 16th Street, N. W. Wa shington, D. C. �l r. Joseph D. Keenan, Secretary International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers / Thomas Hannigan IBEW 1200 15th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. A third Co-Chairman will be designated STAFF COORDINATOR: James Gibson TASK FORCE ON EMERGENCY WORK CO-CHAIRMEN: PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Mayor Richard J. Daley Chicago, Illinois David Stahl Mayor's Office, City Hall Chicago, Illinois Mayor John V. Lindsay New Yor k New York Jay Kri egel Mayor's Office , City Ha ll New York, New York Peter Tufo 1730 K Street , N. W. , Suite 319 Washing ton, D. C. A. Ph i lip Randolph, Pres ident Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters STAFF COORDI NATOR: Bayard Rustin A. Philip Randolph Institute 217 West 125th Street New York, New York Not ye t de signa t ed TASK FORCE ON EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES CO-CHAI RMEN: PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Archbishop John F. Dearden Detroit, Michigan Ms gr. Lawrence Corcoran National Conference of Catholic Charities 1346 Conn ec ticut Avenue, N. W. Washington, D. C, Whitney Young, Jr ., Exe cutive Director National Urban League Guichard Parris National Urban League 55 East 52nd Street New York, New York Frederick J . Close, Chairman of the Board Aluminum Company of America Richard Idler Architectural Building Products Sales Alcoa Building Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania �1 1 COORDINATING STAFF: Not yet designated TASK FORCE ON EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: CO-CHAIRMEN : Roy Ash , President Litton Industries Not yet designated Roy Wilkins, Executive Director National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Clarence Mitchell Washington Bureau, NAACP 422 1st Street, S. E. Washington, D. C. Dr. Arthur Flemming, President Nationa l Council of Churches James Hamilton National Council of Churches 110 Maryland Avenue, N. E. Washington, D. C. COORDINATING STAFF: Not yet designated TASK FORC E ON COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC EDUCATION CO-CHAIRMEN: PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Joseph H. All en , President McGraw-Hi ll Public a tions Not yet de signat ed J ohn J ohnson, Pres ident J ohnson Pub l i ca t i on s Not yet de s igna te d Harold Flemi ng, Pr e si dent Potomac In s titut e Not ye t designated � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document TASK FORCE ROSTER TASK FORCE ON LOCAL COALITIONS CO-CHAIRMEN: Arnold Aronson Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Mayor Joseph Barr Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Charles P, Taft, Esq. Cincinnati, Ohio STAFF COORDINATOR: Chris Mould TASK FORCE ON PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT EXPANSION CO-CHATRMEN: Gerald L. Phillippe, Chairman of the Board General Electric Company John Wheeler, President Mechanics and Farmers Bank David Sullivan, President Building Service Employes International Union STAFF COORDINATOR: Mel Cotton TASK FORCE ON RECONSTRUCTION AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT CO-CHATRMEN : Walter Reuther, President United Auto Workers September 29, 1967 PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Joseph Rauh 1001 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington, D,. C, Aldo Colautti Mayor's Office, City Hall Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Not yet designated PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: William C. Hart General Electric Company 570 Lexington Avenue New York, New York Vernon Jordon Southern Regional Council 5 Forsythe Street, N. W. Atlanta, Georgia Anthony Weinlein 900 17th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Jack Conway International Union Department 815 16th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. Joseph D. Keenan, Secretary International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers A third Co-Chairman will be designated Thomas Hannigan IBEW 1200 15th Street, N. W. Washington, D, C, STAFF COORDINATOR: James Gibson TASK FORCE ON EMERGENCY WORK CO-CHAIRMEN: PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Mayor Richard J. Daley Chicago, Illinois Mayor John V. Lindsay New York New York A, Philip Randolph, President Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters David Stahl Mayor's Office, City Hall Chicago, Illinois Jay Kriegel Mayor's Office, City Hall New York, New York Peter Tufo 1730 K Street, N. W., Suite 319 Washington, D, C, Bayard Rustin A. Philip Randolph Institute 217 West 125th Street New York, New York STAFF COORDINATOR: Not yet designated TASK FORCE ON EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES CO-CHATRMEN: PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Archbishop John F. Dearden Detroit, Michigan Whitney Young, Jr., Executive Director National Urban League Frederick J. Close, Chairman of the Board Aluminum Company of America Msgr. Lawrence Corcoran National Conference of Catholic Charities 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N. W. Washington, D,. C. Guichard Parris National Urban League 55 East 52nd Street New York, New York Richard Idler Architectural Building Products Sales Alcoa Building Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania COORDINATING STAFF: Not yet designated TASK FORCE ON EDUCATIONAL DISPARITIES CO-CHATRMEN : PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Roy Ash, President Not yet designated Litton Industries Roy Wilkins, Executive Director Clarence Mitchell National Association for the Advancement Washington Bureau, NAACP of Colored People 422 1st Street, S. E. Washington, D. C, Dr. Arthur Flemming, President James Hamilton National Council of Churches National Council of Churches 110 Maryland Avenue, N. E. Washington, D. C, COORDINATING STAFF: Not yet designated TASK FORCE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC EDUCATION CO-CHAT RMEN : PARTICIPATING REPRESENTATIVES: Joseph H. Allen, President Not yet designated McGraw-Hill Publications John Johnson, President Not yet designated Johnson Publications Harold Fleming, President Not yet designated Potomac Institute  Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Box 7, Folder 8, Document 59 Box 7 Box 7 Folder 8 Folder topic: Urban Coalition | Miscellaneous | 1967-1968