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Social, economic rights under challenge in U.S.: report

Xinhua, April 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

In 2015, no substantial progress concerning the economic and social rights of U.S. citizens was made, says a report on the U.S. human rights record on Thursday.

Last year, workers in the United States carried out mass strikes to claim their rights at work, the report says, adding that food-insecure and homeless populations remained huge in the nation, and many U.S. people suffered from poor health.

The report titled "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2015" was released by China's State Council Information Office.

According to Al Jazeera America, about 40 percent of private-sector workers, or 44 million people in America, did not have access to paid sick leave.

The gap between the rich and poor has been continuously growing, says the report.

According to USA Today, in the United States, 3.1 percent of income earned annually went to the poorest 20 percent of people, while 51.4 percent was earned by the richest 20 percent.

The USA Today also reported that 79 percent of Americans believed it was more common for people to fall out of the middle class than rise up to it.

The food-insecure population remained large in the United States, says the report. At least 48.1 million people a year could not always afford to eat balanced meals, according to a Guardian report.

Citing figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the report notes that more than 560,000 people were homeless in the United States, and about one-fourth of them were children under the age of 18.

Human right to health of U.S. people was not fully protected. There were still 33 million people in the United States with no healthcare insurance in 2015, says the report, citing data released by the Institute for Policy Innovation

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the death rate from drug overdose, which was the leading cause of diseases in the United States, more than doubled from 6.0 per 100,000 population in 1999 to 13.8 in 2013, the report notes. Endi