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    "ocrText": "SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION\nWASHINGTON 25, D.C.\nOFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR\nOctober 30, 1963\nMEMORANDUM FOR: Bernard L. Boutin\nGeneral Services Administration\nFROM:\nEugene P. Foley\nAdministrator\nSUBJECT:\nCoordination of Federal Lending and Spending\nPrograms in Hard Core Unemployment Areas of\nMajor Cities\nAt the meeting in your office recently, I mentioned\nmy thoughts on the above subject. Briefly stated, they are as\nfollows:\nA number of Federal agencies have lending or spending\nprograms that operate in our major cities. For instance, SBA\nhas a regular business loan program (amounting to approximately\n$300 million a year), a state and local development company program\n(amounting to approximately $35 million a year), and a small business\ninvestment company program (amounting to approximately $85 million\na year). Urban Renewal, of course, has a major program as do HEW,\nLabor, (Manpower Training), and ARA.\nThe heart of the problem is the fact that most of our\nhard core long range unemployment is in large citles which are\ngenerally not covered by the programs of the Area Redevelopment\nAdministration. It seems to me we could accomplish a great deal\nin terms of alleviating this hard core problem by coordinating\nthe existing programs of the Federal Government.\nMore specifically, I have in mind selecting a city that\nhas a Democratic mayor and appointing a Federal Coordinator representing\nall agencies of the Government that might have a spending or lending\nprogram in that city to work with the city government. This may secm\nobvious and simple, but the plain facts of life are that this has never\nbeen done. Most city departments are like government bureaus: they\nare compartmentalize and think solely in terms of their own agency's\noperations. (BIII Slayton of URA, for instance, did not know of the\nopportunities that exist in the community development program which\nI\nadminister; he simply had never heard of it before.)\nXEROX FROM QUICK COPY"
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