Mississippi has highest teen birth rate, CDC says (AP)

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Mississippi has highest teen birth rate, CDC says
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<p>You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginAP - Mississippi now has the nation's highest teen birth rate, displacing Texas and New Mexico for that lamentable title, a new federal report says. Mississippi's rate was more than 60 percent higher than the national average in 2006, according to new state statistics released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The teen birth rate for that year in Texas and New Mexico was more than 50 percent higher.</p><br clear="all"/>


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