The community services block grant (CSBG) provides the only Federal program with the specific objective of ameliorating the causes of poverty. It sponsors State and local initiatives. through block grants to States. aimed at making poor people selfsufficient. Title IV of H.R. 3520 will maintain the community economic development program. programs to address rural poverty. the national summer youth sports program. programs for the elderly poor. programs to assist the families of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. and State and local community initiatives. In 1981. when the President proposed his New Federalism concept. Congress was assured that this was not an effort to kill the poverty program. but rather -an effort to have States participate more directly in maintaining their own programs.