The document discusses income inequality in New Zealand. It finds that the bottom 50% of the population holds only 5.2% of the nation's wealth, while the top 1% holds 16.4%. New Zealand's Gini coefficient of 0.335 places it slightly above the OECD average of 0.311. Income inequality has grown in most OECD countries since the mid-1980s. This income gap contributes to high rates of child poverty in New Zealand, which ranks 28th out of 30 OECD countries and has seen about 100 children die due to poverty annually. The conclusion calls for more progressive taxation and welfare spending to help those at the bottom as well as efforts to decrease wage disparities.