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Government Subsidizes Fruit Cake Business
Poverty and unemployment fuel a Johnson era push for Great Society programs. The piece cites a Lafayette Louisiana fruitcake cooperative funded by an anti poverty loan, part of broader efforts like VISTA Job Corps and Neighborhood Youth Corps. It notes housing, education, and transportation initiatives including a new Department of Housing and Urban Development and a $90 million rail study.
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Raymond J. Crowley
Washington
Megalopolis
Johnson
Congress
Pedernales
Johnson Texas Ranch
Sargent Shriver
Shriver
Lafayette
Office of Economic Opportunity
R’s
Clarksdale
Miss
Citizens
Appalachia
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Navy
Passaic
Cape Cod
Mass
New York City