ABSTRACT
The infant mortality rate, like life expectancy, gauges general public health and welfare. The World Bank, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization annually rank countries according to infant mortality rates. Infant mortality rates differ geographically at nearly every scale: by neighborhood within a municipality, county, and state. The chapter considers the socioeconomic (SE) factors associated with the patterns of infant mortality rates in each set of states. More numerous non-unions SE factors associate with this mortality rate in the Donald Trump set than in the Clinton set and with generally higher R-squares. In the Trump system, the income inequality of the post-war era affects this mortality rate much more than higher educational attainment. The number of significant associations is greater, and the R-squares are generally greater in the Trump set than in the Clinton.
