Testimony was heard from two panels concerning: (1) child care as a supportive service designed to ensure parents' access to education, job training, and the labor market; and (2) the effectiveness of federal programs in administering to child care needs. Witnesses appearing in the first panel described (1) experience as a single parent; (2) experience as a displaced homemaker participating in a displaced homemaker program, (3) operations of a program unit of the national Displaced Homemakers' Network; (4) the value of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), (5) the needs of programs serving the rural and migrant poor, who work mainly in the agricultural sector; and (6) child care funding needs in Florida, particularly those of teenage parents. Witnesses in the second panel (1) described the operation of a Florida community child care agency in regard to State and Federal programs; (2) argued that adequate child care is an economic productivity problem and inadequate child care is a major barrier to employment for the poor, economically depressed, and lower middle class; (3) discussed the impact of poverty and the demise of the extended family on single parent women and a method for helping these women become self-sufficient; and (4) described experiences of the Early Childhood Development Association in providing child care to parents served under the Refugee Resettlement Act. A magazine article overviewing day care in the United States circa 1985 is appended. (RH)