Sanders: Baltimore Has Higher Infant Mortality Rate ‘than the West Bank in Palestine’

‘If you are born in Baltimore’s poorest neighborhood, your life expectancy is almost 20 years shorter than if you were born in its richest neighborhoods’

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BERNIE SANDERS: "A death sentence. Now, people don't know this thing, well, you are poor, that's not good. You don't have a fancy TV, you don't go out to eat. That's not the issue. If you are born in Baltimore's poorest neighborhood, your life expectancy is almost 20 years shorter than if you were born in its richest neighborhoods. 15 neighborhoods in Baltimore have lower life expectancies than North Korea. Two of them have a higher infant mortality rate than the West Bank in Palestine. Baltimore teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19 face poor er, in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."

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