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On the recordNovember 28, 2012
One being the best of course. And you mentioned countries that we wouldn't necessarily expect would be better than the United States--Morocco, for example--and I'm sure there are a bunch of others. Yet the United States of America is 50th. Now, many people don't live in communities in which they see that, but that means that there have to be neighborhoods and communities in our country in which the infant mortality rate is probably very much like those in underdeveloped countries, where they rely on programs like the Women, Infants, and Children program which make sure that women don't have underweight births, children born of low weight. The other thing you were talking about was the WIC program. It sounds like what you're saying is that we would actually be taking food out of the mouths of little children.
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Janice Schakowsky
Democratic · Illinois

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