{"id":594692,"date":"2026-09-09T06:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594692\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T06:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:22:10","slug":"wellington-scoop-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/594692\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington.Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/max-rashbrooke.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788934930_40_max-rashbrooke-430x240.png\" alt=\"max rashbrooke\" width=\"430\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-182899\"   \/><\/a> Max Rashbrooke. Photo by Roy Murphy<\/p>\n<p>by Roy Murphy<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019ve got very significant disparities between rich and poor in New Zealand,\u201d said Max Rashbrooke, who writes on economic inequality and democratic renewal. Speaking in Wellington this week at a second panel on tax policy, he said: \u201cWe used to be a country where the richest tenth of people earned about five to six times more than the poorest tenth. That ratio has widened out to 10 times. We have one of the least inequality-reducing tax and welfare systems in the developed world.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/?p=182891#more-182891\" class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Rashbrooke. Photo by Roy Murphy by Roy Murphy\u201cWe\u2019ve got very significant disparities between rich and poor in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-594692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}