MORTALITY
11.4
Mississippi's infant-mortality rate per 1,000 births in 2005, the highest in the nation. The U.S. average for 2003, the last year for which data have been compiled, was 6.9
17.0
Mortality rate of nonwhite babies in Mississippi. The infant mortality rate among whites is 6.6
FOOD AID
70 million
Number of people the U.S. fed through its federal aid program in 2006, compared with more than 100 million five years ago. The U.N. World Food Program estimates that there are 850 million hungry people in the world
18%
Percentage of the U.S. corn crop used for ethanol production in...
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