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THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON INCOME MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS
1016 16TH STREET, N. W,
WASHINGTON, D. Cc. 20036
May 10, 1968
Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor of the City of Atlanta
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Dear Mayor Allen:
The President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs was appointed
by the President on January 2, 1968, and directed to report to the Presi-
dent and to the public within two years on an unusually wide range of
issues relating to existing public welfare and income maintenance programs
and to propose necessary reforms.
The President gave to the Commission the following mandate: (1) to examine
and assess aspects of existing welfare and related programs; (2) to recom-
mend constructive improvements wherever needed and indicated; (3) to ex-
amine alternative programs, however unconventional, which would promise a
constructive advance in meeting the income needs of all Americans; (4) to
examine major reforms proposed in recent years including several varieties
of minimum income guarantees; (5) to evaluate the costs and benefits of
these proposals in terms of their effects, both on the recipients and on
the economy.
This charter is broad and comprehensive. The Commission cannot hope to
successfully accomplish its assignment without the assistance of interested
and concerned Americans. As a Mayor, you have direct experience with exist-
ing programs, and with the basic problems to which the programs are addressed.
We would like to invite your opinions or suggestions on the issues that are
cited above.
Your response to this request can be a valuable contribution to the work
of the Commission. We would be happy to receive anything you care to con-
tribute with whatever data you are able to provide and assure you that
your reply will be carefully studied by members of the Commission and the
staff.
Py.
ON INCOME MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS
1016 16TH STREET, N. W,
WASHINGTON, D. Cc. 20036
May 10, 1968
Honorable Ivan Allen, Jr.
Mayor of the City of Atlanta
City Hall
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Dear Mayor Allen:
The President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs was appointed
by the President on January 2, 1968, and directed to report to the Presi-
dent and to the public within two years on an unusually wide range of
issues relating to existing public welfare and income maintenance programs
and to propose necessary reforms.
The President gave to the Commission the following mandate: (1) to examine
and assess aspects of existing welfare and related programs; (2) to recom-
mend constructive improvements wherever needed and indicated; (3) to ex-
amine alternative programs, however unconventional, which would promise a
constructive advance in meeting the income needs of all Americans; (4) to
examine major reforms proposed in recent years including several varieties
of minimum income guarantees; (5) to evaluate the costs and benefits of
these proposals in terms of their effects, both on the recipients and on
the economy.
This charter is broad and comprehensive. The Commission cannot hope to
successfully accomplish its assignment without the assistance of interested
and concerned Americans. As a Mayor, you have direct experience with exist-
ing programs, and with the basic problems to which the programs are addressed.
We would like to invite your opinions or suggestions on the issues that are
cited above.
Your response to this request can be a valuable contribution to the work
of the Commission. We would be happy to receive anything you care to con-
tribute with whatever data you are able to provide and assure you that
your reply will be carefully studied by members of the Commission and the
staff.
Py.
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