  urlLink In These Times | The Kids Aren%u2019t All Right : " Last April, the Children%u2019s Defense Fund reported that more than 1 million African-American children live in %u201Cdeep poverty,%u201D in households with incomes less than half the U.S. government%u2019s already inadequate poverty level. This is up dramatically from early 2000, when %u201Conly%u201D 686,000 black children were that poor%u2014an accomplishment certain to be deleted from George W. Bush%u2019s re-election rmThe story of this report received a short burst of attention, meriting mention in the New York Times and other mainstream venues before it quickly faded. " 
