Department of Labor manpower experts cite lack of child care as the most serious single barrier to job training or employment for lowincome mothers. Our national goal should be: 1. A system of wellrun child care centers available to all preschool children. Although priority would be given the needs of lowincome working mothers. the facilities should be available to middle income mothers who wish to use them. 2. Afterschool activities for schoolage children at all economic levels who require them. The National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity estimated this year that 700.000 migrant children need day care. Only 13.000 spaces are available. The Council found that 1.373.000 economically deprived children could have benefited from participation in fulltime Head Start programs.