This Congressional report contains the testimony and documents presented for the record at the second of two hearings on the effects of welfare reform and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Other areas receiving particular attention from witnesses included the impacts of education and training on employment patterns and welfare recipients' success in achieving economic self-sufficiency and the adequacy of the education and training authorized under TANF. The oral and written testimony focuses on the work requirements within the welfare reform bill that Congress passed in the 1996 legislation. The oral statements of the following individuals are presented: Howard "Buck" McKeon and Patsy T. Mink, Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives; Lynn A. Karoly, director, Labor and Population Program and Population Research Center, RAND Institute; E. Mona Garland, director, Opportunities Industrialization Center of Greater Milwaukee, Wisconsin Works; LaShunda Hall, former Wisconsin Works participant; Rodney Carroll, president and chief executive officer, The Welfare to Work Partnership, Washington, D.C.; Martha Davis, legal director, NOW-LDEF, New York; and Jennifer Brooks, director, Self-Sufficiency Programs and Policy, Wider Opportunities for Women. The report's eight appendixes contain the written statements submitted by the witnesses. (MN)