Babies pay for Detroit’s fall with mortality above Mexico

Infant mortality in Detroit (15 deaths per 1,000 live births) in 2012 was higher than in China (12), Mexico (14) and Thailand (11).

One of the more interesting lines was this:

Men in the city are “out of control. Most of them don’t have jobs, most of them couldn’t provide.

I believe a valid question is: in a place where things are so bad that infants are dropping dead at a high rate, if an adult doesn’t have a job and they can’t provide… why are they not starving to death?