Poverty
1964 General Resolution
WHEREAS, the President of the United States has stated that one-fifth of all American families have resources inadequate to meet their basic needs and has announced a war on poverty in America and has called for a cooperative effort to deal with its causes and cures;WHEREAS, the blight of poverty is most keenly felt by members of unskilled minority groups, workers displaced by automation, the aged, migrant workers, and the residents of chronically depressed areas;
WHEREAS, societies of the Unitarian Universalist Association have a compelling responsibility in this cooperative effort;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association declare poverty in the midst of plenty intolerable to the religious conscience and incompatible with our principles of economic justice; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the Unitarian Universalist Association urge the individual societies and their members to support the President's proposed programs to:
- Expand and improve programs for economic development in chronically depressed areas;
- Provide adequate education and vocational training for youth and retraining for displaced workers;
- Recognize and meet the needs of the aged;
- Appropriate special school aid funds to accelerate education for culturally deprived children;
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That our churches and fellowships be urged to expand opportunities for the cultural advancement of the socially disadvantaged in their
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