Bloomberg Opinion, July 13, 2020: ‘E Pluribus Unum’ Is a Cruel Mirage
Anyone who navigates America’s socioeconomic data is accustomed to charts that break out the country’s general population into its component racial and ethnic groups.
More often than not, the disparities illustrated are startling.
For instance, although in 2016 America’s national infant mortality rate was 5.9 per 1,000 live births, the rate for non-Hispanic Black people was 11.4 — which is more than double the rate for non-Hispanic White people (4.9), and more than triple that of Asian Americans (3.6).
