Connect to share and comment  Income inequality is surging, and
there are few countries where it is rising faster than the
United States. The distance between rich and poor is greater in
America than nearly all other developed countries, making the US
a leader in a trend that economists warn has dire consequences.
GlobalPost sets out on a reporting journey to get at the ‘ground
truth’ of inequality through the lenses of education, race,
immigration, health care, government, labor and natural
resources. The hope is to hold a mirror up to the US to see how
it compares to countries around the world.  20130118 moscow
great divide Galina Nikolaeva (left), 65, thanks Nadezhda
Gracheva of Sisters of Mercy at Saint Alexei Hospital in Moscow.
(Yuri Kozyrev/GlobalPost)  Health care disparity reveals
Russia's income inequality crisis  When citizens become
patients, the country's growing economic divide is painfully
evident.  Comparing the Divide: Income dictates access to health
care in the capital cities of Russia and