What Made the Community Action Program (CAP)the Most Controversial Part

question 50

Multiple Choice

What made the Community Action Program (CAP) the most controversial part of the War on Poverty programs?

• A) Its beneficiaries were given no voice in its direction.
• B) It promised to be an extremely expensive program that might not work.
• C) Few believed its key element,the Job Corps,had any chance of success.
• D) It required the maximum feasible participation of the poor it proposed to help.

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