Morning State News Briefs: Milwaukee infant mortality rate drops

April 24, 2012 at 6:53 am in Pierce County Herald

Wisconsin News — The infant death rate in Wisconsin’s largest city dropped to a record-low last year. But Milwaukee’s mortality rate for African-American babies is almost three times that of whites. And Mayor Tom Barrett called it quote, “an embarrassment to our city, to our county, and to our state.” Continue Reading