I should note. in passing. that the socalled planning document dealt mainly with broad. general program objectives and said little about the details of how the program would be run. by whom it would be run. where it would be set up and in what time frame. I was particularly distressed by the Secretarys promise of coordination of supportive social services and my discovery that this facet of the prbgram was not discussed at all in the Last Yellow Bus. The Department claims the program is "comprehensive" because all available training and services will aid migrants both at their home base and in the stream. But the program cannot claim to be comprehensive when it will affect no more than 4 percent of the noncasual migrants during the first year and when it cuts off nearly a quarter of the migrant population from eligibility for important. phases of the program. I can understand that at the outset the Department will essentially be running a pilot program and obviously cannot reach a greater number of migrants. But I fail to understand the rationale for not including several east coast States that during the peak employment month of August 1970 had a migrant population that may have been as high as 50.000. Thirtyseven Members of the House from Massachusetts. Connecticut.
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