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Article: CEO takes stock, helps the community.(Capital Region)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2005
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Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff Writer
TROY - Forty years ago, a small group of citizens met to form a local militia in President Lyndon Johnson's just-declared war on poverty.
The battle rages on, but the troops have grown. The Commission on Economic Opportunity began in 1965 by offering a summer Head Start program to help poor youngsters get ready for school in six sites throughout the county.
Today, some 14,000 people are helped each year by the agency, through a breathtaking array of programs.
Low-income residents get to leave their children at CEO's day-care centers while the parents work. Foster grandparents mingle with children ...