Tracing Causes of Infant Mortality

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With all the things that were once taboo now being talked about on nationwide television, there are other things that we are very squeamish about. One of these is the high infant mortality rate among blacks.

Storm clouds of "racism" charges hang over any discussion of any social problems among blacks. But as Charles Murray, among others, has demonstrated, similar problems occur in Europe where similar policies affect whites. Swedes are about as white as you can get, but their illegitimacy rates are close to those of blacks in the United States. Welfare policies that affect primarily low-income groups affect a far wider portion of the population in Sweden, undermining …