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Report: Child disparities highest in US South, West

by Associated Press
| June 2, 2020 8:27 AM

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (AP) — Childhood disparities around malnutrition, graduation rates, and early deaths are worst among rural, black-majority counties in the American South and isolated counties with Native American populations, according to a new report.

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