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The Great Divide: Global income inequality and its cost
Inauguration Day: DC elites prosper amid America's rising income inequality
An unmistakable disparity in life expectancy and access to quality health care have become hallmarks of the Washington, DC area.
Ben Schreckinger
WASHINGTON — Washington, D.C. doesn’t just serve as a prime example of rising inequality. It drives much of it. Indeed, there is a broad consensus among liberal and conservative economists that government policy — specifically a tax structure that favors the wealthiest Americans — has been a determinant factor in rising income inequality in America.  full story
Health care disparity reveals Russia's income inequality crisis
When citizens become patients, the country's growing economic divide is painfully evident.
US civil rights battleground still divided by race and income
For Selma students left without hope for a better future, the Civil Rights Movement is unfinished.
Brazil's 'educational apartheid'
Brazilian government initiatives now bring schooling to the masses, but the country's deep racial divide has only been reinforced.
Connecticut's economic divide shows price of inequality
America's wealthiest metropolitan area also one of country's least equal.
Glitz and desperation in a Bangkok divided by income
Americans think of Bangkok as embodying the rich-poor divide of the developing world, but some US areas are beginning to rival it.
From East Coast to Far East, pulling back the curtain on income inequality
VIDEO: GlobalPost gauges a growing distance between rich and poor in Connecticut and Thailand.
Stiglitz: US sets 'terrible example' on income inequality
How rising inequality destabilizes American society.
Prescriptions for improving American income inequality
As the rich get richer and everyone else is left behind, how can the US return to the American Dream?
The Great Divide: Methodology
The methodology behind GlobalPost's Special Report "The Great Divide: global income inequality and its cost."
The Story Behind the Story: Michael Moran on income inequality
The Story Behind the Story: Patrick Winn on income inequality in Bangkok
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