Monday, July 30, 2007

The South shall rise again - again

Just so's we don't forget what happens when you cut taxes, cut education, cut health care and pretend the poor don't exist:

Children in poverty: Mississippi (50th), followed by Louisiana (49th), Alabama (44th), Arkansas (44th), South Carolina (42), North Carolina (39th), Tennessee (39th), Georgia (36th).

(Colorado is 11th.)

Infant mortality rates: Louisiana (50th), Mississippi (49th), South Carolina (48th), North Carolina (46th), Alabama (45th), Tennessee (43rd), Georgia (42nd), Arkansas (40th).

(Colorado is 20th.)

Teen motherhood: Missisippi (50th), Arkansas (45th), Alabama (45th), Louisiana (45th), Georgia (42nd), South Carolina (41st), Tennessee (40th), North Carolina (38th).

(Colorado is 35th.)
Aren't we better than this?

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