These numbers represent the level of poverty in the city and surrounding county, the lack of affordable housing in both, and the degree to which we tolerate a condition that should not be tolerated. More than anything, those numbers represent kids who happen to have been born into poverty, or into families that experienced a crisis. These kids feel a level of stress and uncertainty most of us have never felt — and, it’s fair to assume, pangs of hunger most of us have never known.