Letting the unfortunate slide

This Modern World points us to some bad news: the US is the second worst developed nation in terms of infant mortality.

American babies are three times more likely to die in their first month as children born in Japan, and newborn mortality is 2.5 times higher in the United States than in Finland, Iceland or Norway, Save the Children researchers found.

We're not a third world nation, nor have we been devastated by a domestic war in recent memory; we just abandon a whole swath of our residents to fend for themselves at the bottom of the undiscussed class ladder. It's not a pretty picture.