Although more Americans are working than ever before, economic and employment trends over the past decade have resulted in low-income families falling even farther below the poverty level than ever before. The purpose of this oversight hearing is to discuss strategies to overcome family poverty. Testimony was submitted by six expert witnesses in the fields of social services and public policy. Key issues and their solutions discussed include the following: (1) support for families with two working parents that includes medical protection and a higher minimum wage, an improved Earned Income Tax Credit, and refundable day care credits; (2) support for single parent families that includes workfare programs and reform of child support collection; (3) male unemployment, a central factor in never-married parenthood, which could be addressed by progressive welfare reform with a job creation policy and universal provision of child and health care; (4) the passivity generated by the "welfare culture," which could be addressed by workfare programs that emphasize the active participation of welfare mothers and fathers; (5) persistently poor children, whose situation could be alleviated by expanding and replicating successful existing programs; (6) the necessity of an "Economic Bill of Rights"; and (7) the acknowledgement that poverty is a complex social condition that must and can be attacked from all spheres of society. An outline of key human resource concerns is included. (FMW)