ABSTRACT
Head Start claims that it "promotes the school readiness of children ages birth to 5 from low-income families by enhancing their cognitive, social and emotional development". Head Start was to be a signature community action program. But there are much better ways to educate children and to find people jobs than Head Start. Job Corps was another major weapon in the War on Poverty. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) had employed young men to work in rural areas helping with conservation projects. The Neighborhood Youth Corps provides work and training for young men and women, ages sixteen to twenty-one, from impoverished families and neighborhoods. Supported in part by the Ford Foundation, local poverty programs in New Haven and on the Lower East Side of New York ran employment programs for youth. When workforce training efforts was created Volunteers in Service to America superbly fit the purposes of the War on Poverty.
