The fact that Condi has no children is VERY relevant

For every five children that fell into poverty since 2000, more than three fell into extreme poverty.
The number of children in extreme poverty (with incomes below $7,610 a year, or about $20 a day, for a family of three) grew almost twice as fast as the rate of increase for child poverty overall (20 percent compared to 12.4 percent).

The U.S. has the highest child poverty rate of any wealthy nation.
A child in America is more likely to live in poverty than a child in any of the 18 other wealthy industrialized nations for which data exist, according to data from the cross-national Luxembourg Income Study.

One out of every six households with children in America was “food insecure” in 2004 (without access to enough food to fully meet basic needs at all times due to lack of financial resources), according the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The majority of food insecure households have incomes that are near or below the poverty line.

More than seven out of 10 poor children live in a working family.
Contrary to popular perceptions about poor families, 71.5 percent of children in poverty lived in a family where someone worked full- or part-time for at least part of the year. More than one in three poor children (34.4 percent) lived with a full-time year-round worker.

There are more poor White non-Hispanic children (4.5 million) than poor Black children (3.8 million) or poor Hispanic children (4.1 million), even though the proportion of Black and Hispanic children who are poor is far higher. Poor families have only 2.1 children on average.

Poor children are at least twice as likely as non-poor children to suffer stunted growth or lead poisoning, or to be kept back in school. Poor children score significantly lower on reading, math, and vocabulary tests when compared with otherwise-similar non-poor children. More than half of poor Americans (55 percent) experience serious deprivations during the year (defined as lack of food, utility shutoffs, crowded or substandard housing, or lack of a stove or refrigerator).

America can lift more children out of poverty.
America cut its child poverty rate in half in the 1960s. Since then, child poverty has grown while national efforts to improve economic security have focused on the elderly. Three fourths of poor children would be lifted out of poverty if government programs were as successful at reducing child poverty as they have been at reducing poverty among seniors. In 2002 public benefits lowered poverty by almost half and child poverty by more than one-third. Moreover, research has shown that if people were able to fully access all of the benefits for which they are eligible, poverty could be reduced by an additional 20 percent and extreme poverty would fall by 70 percent.