Inside the Wealth Gap: Stories and Stats

Statistics tell stories. Here’s one: the richest 5% of Kiwis own 44% of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 50% own 2%. Economics commentator Max Rashbrooke’s Too Much Money: How Wealth Disparities Are Unbalancing Aotearoa New Zealand brings years of research – and literary examples – to the debate, while author, playwright and poet Dominic Hoey’s explosive Poor People with Money captures life on the poverty line right now. They talk wealth, poverty and opportunity with Danyl McLauchlan.