Inequality stat of the week

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February 15, 2015 at 11:26 am #18494

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Just somethin i read today.

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http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/28581-is-inequality-killing-us-mothers#startOfPageId28581
“…Women living in the lowest-income areas in the United States are twice as likely to suffer maternal death,
and states with high rates of poverty have MMRs 77 percent higher than states with fewer residents living below the federal poverty level.
Black women are three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as white women,
and in some U.S. cities the MMR among Black women is higher than in some sub-Saharan African countries….” see link

February 15, 2015 at 11:30 am #18495

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Thot this was inter esting. The Catholic Church is apparently
being nudged into noticing…um…the situation:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/12/us-pope-environment-idUSKBN0LG28920150212

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