This document reports the oral and written testimony of witnesses at a Congressional hearing held to examine ways to use the abilities of the rapidly growing older population, particularly in professions such as child care where they have the potential of making an important contribution to the education and care of the children of the United States. Witnesses included members of Congress, officials of the U.S. Department of Labor and the Social Security Administration, officials of the National Council on Aging, the mayor of Union City (New Jersey), a project director of a day care program in New Jersey, the director of the New Jersey Department of Senior Employment Services, and the public affairs director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The witnesses testified about proposed legislation that would exempt child care earnings from the Social Security earnings test so that more older adults would be willing to be employed as child caregivers. The witnesses favored doing away with the earnings test entirely, since it usually is a disincentive for older Americans to work. They also wanted Job Training Partnership Act provisions changed so that older persons could be trained for child care, as is being done by the New Jersey project, without being required to work full time, which many older people do not want. Reports included in the transcript point to the need to reconsider older adults and their training and employment needs as well as the work force needs of the country. (KC)