These figures tell a good deal. but they do not come close to revealing what a tremendous impact economic opportunity programs have had upon human lives in countless thousands of local antipoverty encounters. They do not reflect the immense boost in life which Headstart gives a little child from a poor familyor which upward bound gives to that childs teenage brother or sister--or which a legal services project of a neighborhood health center can give to an entire familyor which a foster grandparents project gives to a lonely and poor elderly person as well as to the institutionalized child in his or her care. Dry statistics do not begin to tell the story of the transformations being wrought on Indian reselvatlons. in migrant workers camps. in Appalachian hollows and in urban slums by the economic opportunity programs launched just a little over 2 years ago. Nor do they begin to account for the tremendous commitment which American industry. civic and professional leaders. public officials. private groups. and religious organizations have made to victory in the war on poverty. America has been aroused. and alerted as to the presence of poverty in our midst and the imperative need to overcome it.