Number of Poor People Has Risen 17% Under Mr. Bush (He's not a racist; he hates all poor people, of color or not)

...If it's shameful that we have bloated corpses on New Orleans streets, it's even more disgraceful that the infant mortality rate in America's capital is twice as high as in China's capital. That's right - the number of babies who died before their first birthdays amounted to 11.5 per thousand live births in 2002 in Washington, compared with 4.6 in Beijing...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/opinion/06kristof.html?ex=1283659200&en=23e833ade1061563&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss