Mr. Speaker. poverty. wherever it exists. is ugly. Its effect on children is hideous. Quite rightly. the desperate plight of slum children has been spotlighted in the search for answers to the urban crisis. But the crush of poverty is just as ugly and just as deVasting in some of the less often seen rural areas. This is especially so in the case of the hundreds of thousands of rootless. often hopeless children in the families of migrant farmworkers. A recent editorial in the. AFLCIO News reminds all of us of this other face of poverty. Under unanimous consent I place it at this point in the RECORD. and recommend it to the consideration of all of our colleagues: