1 Sep 2020

NZ's wealthiest, worth 68 times more than the average NZer

From Afternoons, 1:27 pm on 1 September 2020

Wellington based writer and 2020 J D Stout Fellow at Victoria University, Max Rashbrooke, has been crunching the numbers from the 2017-18 Household Economic survey.

The numbers have shown that the country's wealthiest 10 percent have 59 percent of all the country's assets. He talks to Jesse about the massive gap between the haves and have nots.

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Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King