Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality.

It reveals that the infant mortality rate has been rising in the US for the past five years - and is now the same as Malaysia. America's black children are twice as likely as whites to die before their first birthday.

Blacks in Washington DC have a higher infant death rate than people in the Indian state of Kerala

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article311066.ece

Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality.

It reveals that the infant mortality rate has been rising in the US for the past five years - and is now the same as Malaysia. America's black children are twice as likely as whites to die before their first birthday.

Blacks in Washington DC have a higher infant death rate than people in the Indian state of Kerala

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article311066.ece

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