But the gap between rich and poor had widened too far for many New Zealanders.
Will the welfare reforms widen or narrow the gap between rich and poor communities in the UK?
The gap between rich and poor has slightly narrowed under Lula's administration, but the disparity remains huge.
Margaret Tulloch, from the Comprehensive Future campaign group, said grammar schools widened the gap between rich and poor.
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In addition to stretching the gap between rich and poor, the non-gold monetary system had one other notable consequence.
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The report suggests Londoners' loneliness could, in part, be created by the gap between rich and poor in the city.
As the gap between rich and poor grows larger, we can no longer afford to be mesmerized by charismatic anecdotes.
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Nearly half (48%) describe the gap between rich and poor as a very big problem, up from 41% four years ago.
The Green Party has launched its local election manifesto, promising to reduce the gap between rich and poor and create jobs.
Robert Brown (Glasgow, LD) asked about the gap between rich and poor in Glasgow and how it can be worked on.
While New Labour was relaxed about people getting richer, One Nation Labour is concerned about the gap between rich and poor.
Substantial evidence shows the greatest increase ever in the gap between rich and poor in the past three decades or so.
In that decade, the gap between rich and poor widened by 60%.
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They must reject a slash-and-burn approach that will make the gap between rich and poor in the golden state ever more extreme.
John Edwards dares to stand in the gap between rich and poor, black and white, urban and rural, a vision of a new America.
In most advanced economies the gap between rich and poor in the 1970s was a lot narrower than it had been in the 1920s.
Although 75% of those questioned felt the gap between rich and poor was too large, only 35% believed the government should do more to redistribute income.
More probably Mr Ford's victory can be attributed to the post-recession reality of Toronto, where the gap between rich and poor has widened into a gulf.
The gap between rich and poor widened more in the three years to 2010 than in the previous 12 years, the OECD group of industrialised nations has said.
There is, though, a bigger problem that exists regardless of the gap between rich and poor, but is made starker as a result of it: pure, sheer poverty.
Speaking to Today presenter John Humphrys, epidemiologist Professor Sir Michael Marmot explained that, while heart disease rates have come down, the gap between rich and poor "has not narrowed".
He declared that he had started a "new debate" on tackling the gap between rich and poor, adding that he thought the public he had met had been generally supportive.
One of the organisers of the referendum, Brigitte Moser Harder, told the BBC she thought the Swiss people agreed with the proposals because the gap between rich and poor had become wider.
As I pointed out a while ago, one consequence of uprating benefits with inflation at a time of flat or falling real wages has been to help narrow the gap between rich and poor.
In fact, according to studies undertaken by the World Bank, economic growth, far from widening inequality, has reduced the gap between rich and poor within and between provinces, as well as lifting millions above the poverty line.
"At this election, the Green Party's saying that we need to reduce the gap between rich and poor, we need to be creating jobs that will last, and we need to be protecting services from government cuts, " Mr Ramsay said.
So as income inequality grew, the government propped up spending by promoting easy credit for less wealthy Americans, and much of the profit from that easy credit fed the wealth of the richest, widening the gap between rich and poor yet further.
The raising of issues like child labour and the widening gap between rich and poor may further embarrass the Indian Government.
And the Chief Medical Officer found the gap between the rich and poor has actually widened in recent years.
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