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US infant mortality

The CDC reports 2004 statistics that show US infant mortality at 7 per 1,000, but with black babies two and a half times more likely to die than white babies. Save the Children last year ranked the USA near the bottom of industrialized countries in this statistic, tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia and just ahead of Latvia.

The freedom veterans fought for, perhaps?