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Gareth Morgan's big tax idea
After motorbiking round the world and saving Happy Feet, economist Gareth Morgan wants to revolutionise our tax and welfare system. Andrew Laxon asks him why.
Barry Coates: Our neighbours need help with tackling poverty
Despite the Pacific's reputation as a region of beaches and abundance, there is no place further from the internationally agreed poverty reduction targets.
Tapu Misa: Cuts hurt kids instead of making parents work
Why is the idea of helping poor children so difficult to sell in a country with a supposed 'socialist streak'?
Susan Guthrie: Rich-poor gulf hard to measure
The gap between rich and poor is an important issue that rarely gets discussed by our economic mandarins.
Bryan Gould: An outcome no political salesman can disguise
It is a measure of how subdued is the national mood and how modest are our current ambitions that we expect so little of our elected governments.
Editorial: Jobs for parents and food for hungry kids
Many readers will have been taken aback this week by revelations in the Herald series on the number of children turning up at schools hungry each day.