Black and ethnic minority (BME) individuals are almost twice as likely to be unemployed as white British adults, a government-backed review of racial issues in the UK has revealed.
The audit, published Tuesday by the government's "Ethnicity Facts and Figures" website, also shows that police are three times more likely to stop and search non-white Britons.
Black and Arab Britons are more than 40 percent less likely to own their own home, compared with white Britons, the report said. [...]
The UK's Resolution Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank, said the number Britons of Chinese, Indian and Black African heritage - aged between 16 and 64 years old - with a degree has more than doubled since 1999, but employment rates and income have not reflected that change.
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