The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. November 2, 2012 Save the Children: Global Inequality at 20-Year High ----------------------------------------------------- A new report is warning global inequality has reached a 20-year high. According to the group Save the Children, poverty that had previously been concentrated in the world's lowest-income countries is now on the rise in "middle-income" countries, which account for 70 percent of the world's poor. .