Witnesses from the business community voice their concern about the human resources wasted when disadvantaged children do not receive the education required to bring them out of the cycle of poverty. The vice chairman of the Committee for Economic Development reports on the committee's new policy of investment strategies for the educationally disadvantaged. It calls for a national campaign of early and sustained involvement in the lives of disadvantaged children. Representatives of other organizations testify on their organizations' involvement in helping disadvantaged children and how the Federal Government can aid the effort. Some recommendations are to provide parenting education, particularly for teenagers at risk of early pregnancy, quality child care for teenage parents still in school, and quality preschool programs for all disadvantaged 3- and 4-year-old children.