Ethnic Americans' economic well-being has worsened as a result of being discriminated against in the job market, said a report on human rights in the United States on Sunday.
The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2012 was released by China's State Council Information Office in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012 issued by the US State Department.
The median household income for African-Americans was $32,229 in 2011, less than 60 percent of that of non-Hispanic whites, the report says, citing the US Census Bureau statistics.
The poverty rate for African-Americans stood at 27.6 percent in 2011, almost three times of that of non-Hispanic whites.
Employment discrimination is the main reason behind income disparity and poverty, reads the report, an annual move of the Chinese government to counterblow the US assessment belittling China's human rights condition.
Statistics from the US Department of Labor, the unemployment rate of whites was registered 7.0 percent in Oct. 2012, while the rate for African-Americans and Hispanics was 14.3 percent and 10 percent, respectively, in that month, according to the report.
The average period of unemployment for ethnic minorities is also notably longer than that for whites, it says.
Still data from the Labor Department, over half of African-Americans and non-Hispanic blacks in New York city, who were old enough to work, had no jobs in 2012, and it takes them almost a full year on average to find another job, the report says.
Highlights:
US-led military operations bring forth ecological disasters to other countries: report
US-led wars cause massive civilian casualties: report
US women victims of discrimination, poverty, sexual violence: report
US scores low on children's rights protection: report
Racial discrimination remains rampant in US: report
Ethnic Americans in poverty due to discrimination: report
Wealth gap growing in US: report
US election marked by political donations: report
Abuse of suspects, jail inmates common in US: report
US govt steps up surveillance of citizens: report
Firearms-related crimes pose serious threat to US citizens: report
US people's lives, personal security not duly protected: report
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