“Babies born to black mothers died at two and a half times the rate of those born to white mothers, according to the CDC figures.”
My guess is that if you extracted the “single unmarried female” from those statistics, you would find three things;
(1)the infant mortality rates when the mother is a single unmarried female would be much, much closer, among the different racial categories; (2)the occurrence of the single unmarried female block among mother who are black women would be larger - as a % of all black women, than it is among white women, and (3) if that category (single unmarried female) was removed from white-female and black-female groups - leaving only married females, the resulting rates of infant mortality would also be closer.
The single unmarried female who gets pregnant not only penalizes herself, economically, but every negative economic impact it places on her accrues, in some fashion, to her health and the child’s health as well.
The public policy problem that needs work is not racial, but moral - the young single unmarried mother.
As opposed to the... "single married mother"?
(just poking fun at the redundancy...)