Sanders: Poverty in Baltimore rivals ‘West Bank in Palestine’

24 April 2016, 5:58 pm

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Sanders tells supporters at a rally in Maryland that Baltimore’s poverty conditions rival those in North Korea and “the West Bank in Palestine.”

“People don’t know this,” he says. “If you are born in Baltimore’s poorest neighborhoods, your life expectancy is almost twenty years shorter than if you are born in a wealthier neighborhood.”

“Fifteen neighborhoods in Baltimore have lower life expectancies than North Korea,” he adds. “Two [neighborhoods] have a higher infant mortality rate than the West Bank in Palestine… Baltimore teenagers between the ages of fifteen and nineteen face poorer health conditions and a worse economic outlook than those in distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa.”