Something about these numbers just doesn't add up:

An African-American infant in Milwaukee is at a greater risk of dying in his or her first year than an infant in Malaysia, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica or Chile.

In one part of the city, the infant mortality rate is even worse - comparable to Mexico and Albania.
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Columbia St. Mary's has agreed to give $320,000 to the city to pay for a pilot program next year designed to help keep infants from dying. The money - the first of what could be a multiyear commitment - will be used to hire four registered nurses to focus on high-risk infants.

The program will operate in two areas of the city - one predominantly African-American, the other predominantly Latino - from which Columbia St. Mary's draws patients.
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In 2004, that mortality rate - the number of infants per thousand who die within the first year of their lives - was 19.4, according to the Milwaukee Health Department.

The rate was 5.7 for white infants and 4.9 for Latino infants.

So the mortality rate for Latino infants is lower than for white infants... but you'll notice that this new program is still going to operate in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, as well as in a predominantly African-American neighborhood.  Why?

Is it because you can't give a program to one minority group without giving it to another?  Is it because everyone would naturally assume that Latino infants are just as poor off as African-American infants, and so if you didn't operate in those neighborhoods you'd be accused of something?

Why aren't they going to operate in a predominantly poor white neighborhood instead?  It sounds like they need the help more than the Latino's do.