About 11 million people lived in "very low food security", according to Reuters.

People without health insurance have been increasing in the United States. A Reuters report on September 20, 2007 quoted the US Census Bureau as saying that 47 million people in the United States were not covered by health insurance.

The human rights records in the United States can be best described as tattered and shocking. The facts enlisted above are only a tip of an iceberg, the report says.

It is high time for the US government to face its own human rights problems with courage, take actions to improve its own human rights records and give up the unwise practices of applying double standards on human rights issues and using it to suppress other countries, according to the report.

This is the ninth consecutive year that the Information Office of the State Council has issued human rights record of the United States to answer the US State Department annual report.

(Xinhua News Agency March 13, 2008)