CRISIS! America’s Infant Mortality Crisis Doubles For Blacks

Every year in America over 11,000 babies die on the day that they’re born.

Fault Lines travels to Cleveland, Ohio—America’s infant mortality capital—where the rates of premature birth and infant death in many neighborhoods exceed those of developing nations.

In a country that spends so much on healthcare and believed to have one of the best neo-natal intensive care units in the world, the U.S. is failing to ensure the health of its newest citizens.