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WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of youth leaders an nounced Tuesday plans to form a National Youth Caucus as a means of gaining influence in the major political parties. Duane Draper, president of the National Association of Student Governments, said the ‘Must create jobs for nation’s poor’ OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The “rhetoric and ha rangue”’ against the poor won't do any good until the public is committed to creating new em ployment. Dr. Robert C. Harder, Kansas welfare director, be lieves, “If a social worker could pre vent just one boy from dropping out of school, the savings to the overall economy would more than equal his (the social worker's) salary in a seven year period,”” Harder told a dinner Monday night. Despite the public outcry over welfare spending in Kansas, he said, 3,775 welfare recipients found jobs and were removed from public assistance rolls last year. “In the month of September in the Aid to Dependent Children program, approximately 70 per cent of the families received grants of less than $200 a month for one family,” Harder said. In response to a question, Harder said he is as committed to his role as Kansas welfare director as he was when he first assumed it. movement to be shaped at an Emergency Conference for New Voters in Chicago this weekend would align itself with the Black Caucus and Women’s Caucus. The purpose, Draper said, would be to maximize their strength at the 1972 presidential nominating conventions. Meanwhile, the Youth Citizen ship Fund, one of the major coordinating groups pushing registration of the newly eligible 18-25-year-old voters, announced it has received $400,000 in grants to continue its work. Carroll Ladt, executive direc tor of YCF, said the group hopes to register as many as half the 25 million potential youthful voters by next year's presidential election.
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Olathe Daily News
Olathe, Kansas, US
Wed, Dec 01, 1971
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