Let’s look at infant mortality to start with.

In 2016, the U.S. saw 5.9 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. Breaking it down by ethnicity is startling:

🍼Asian 3.6
🍼White 4.9
🍼Hispanic 5
🍼Native Hawaiian 7.4
🍼American Indian 9.4
🍼Black 11.4 http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
These domestic divisions are so great, Black Americans & Asian Americans seem to be occupying different countries.

The U.S. Asian rate is on a par with 🇨🇭Switzerland, while the rate for Black Americans is worse than 🇹🇷Turkey, and just better than 🇲🇽Mexico http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
As those babies grow into 15 year olds, the disparities continue.

📚Black American students have average literacy scores below students from Russia and Chile.
📚U.S. Asian students, however, topped the global ranking, with White students not far behind http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
Covid-19 has increased U.S. unemployment dramatically. From December 2019 to April 2020, here’s how things changed:

Asian: 2.5% ➡️ 14.5%
White: 3.2% ➡️ 14.2%
Hispanic: 4.2% ➡️ 18.9%
Black: 5.9% ➡️ 16.7% http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
Here’s how the annual rates for 2019 stack up internationally.

The unemployment rate for African Americans was twice that of 🇩🇪Germany’s, though far better than 🇪🇸Spain’s http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
The rates of inadequate or nonexistent access to health care falls unequally across race and ethnicity.

That precariousness comes into sharper focus when compared to other advanced economies where the risk of being uninsured simply doesn't exist http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
Obesity is affected by many forces often out of a person’s control:

💵Income
📚Education
💨Pollution
🍟Prevalence of food deserts http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
The U.S. is the 12th most obese nation in the world. Within this ranking, the racial and ethnic divisions are stark.

U.S. Asians rank better than 🇨🇭Switzerland, while Black women in the U.S. rank just below the most obese country in the world -- 🇳🇷Nauru http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
The inequalities continue to the grave.

While U.S. Hispanic people live longer on average than 🇬🇧Brits or 🇩🇪Germans, American Black men have a lower life expectancy than the average 🇱🇻Latvian or 🇷🇺Russian person http://trib.al/XAWPzJn 
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