"About 40 parents of Richmond Road School students staged an hour-long protest in front of the Grey Lynn school this morning. Angela Madden-Smith, whose three children went through the school's bilingual unit Te Whanau Whariki, said the unit was not being properly resourced and staff had been treated poorly. The primary school started Maori, Samoan and Cook Island Maori bilingual units in the 1970s and established a French unit in 1996. Madden-Smith, who had been involved with the school since 1999, said it had a "world-renowned" bilingual unit but recent principals had "no idea" about bilingual education."

"Concerns about income inequality lie at the heart of the proposal. As Mr. Piketty and his frequent collaborator Emmanuel Saez have shown, the increase in inequality in the United States is mostly attributable to gains by the top 1 percent, and, even more so, by the top 10 percent of the top 1 percent (those who earn more than $2 million a year)."