Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org, and is author of the new book, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good. He is cofounder of Wealth for the Common Good, recently merged with the Patriotic Millionaires. He is co-author of 99 to 1: The Moral Measure of the Economy and, with Bill Gates Sr., of Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes.
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Views Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Racial Inequality Is Hollowing Out America’s Middle Class America’s middle class is under assault. Since 1983, national median wealth has declined by 20 percent, falling from $73,000 to $64,000 in 2013. And U.S. homeownership has been in a steady decline since 2005. While we often hear about the struggles of the white working class, a driving force behind... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 03, 2017 The Coming Tax Fight — and Why We Need You! Are you ready to resist? With Donald Trump’s August 30 tax cut speech in Springfield, Missouri, the great tax fight of 2017 has now begun. The Trump tax cut plan, the President blustered in Missouri, will raise wages and benefit America’s working people. “This speech was an extraordinary effort to... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 12, 2017 What Would It Really Take to Reverse Inequality? While there is now widespread understanding that extreme income and wealth inequality is growing and has negative impacts on society, most proposed solutions fail to address deeper systemic drivers. If we misdiagnose an illness, we are likely to prescribe an insufficient or even dangerous remedy... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Eight Lessons US Progressives Can Learn From the UK Labour Party In March, progressive activists in the United Kingdom had reason to feel deeply discouraged. Nine months earlier, a majority had voted for Brexit, setting in motion plans to pull the U.K. out of the European Union. Then Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May decided to call a "snap election" with... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 28, 2017 What Happened to America’s Wealth? The Rich Hid It. If you find yourself traveling this summer, take a closer look at America’s deteriorating infrastructure — our crumbling roads, sidewalks, public parks, and train and bus stations. Government officials will tell us “there’s no money” to repair or properly maintain our tired infrastructure. Nor do... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 20, 2017 Congress Wants to Cut Your Health Care — And Billionaires’ Taxes Members of the House GOP were in a hurry on May 4 to pass their bill to gut Obamacare. They rushed it through before anyone even had a chance to check its cost or calculate its impact on people’s access to insurance. Their urgency, however, had little to do with health care. The real reason for the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 20, 2017 Congrats, Graduates! Here’s Your Diploma and Debt It’s that time of year again. Flowers are flowering, spring is springing, and across the country college graduates are graduating with their newly awarded degrees held high. Also high is the mountain of student debt most of these recent graduates are taking on. All told, 44 million Americans now... Read more |
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Views Saturday, February 25, 2017 Wall Street Hopes You’ve Forgotten the Crash Already Remember October 2008 — the bank bailouts, the spiking unemployment rate, the stock market free fall? Maybe you lost a job, got a pay cut, or saw your retirement savings or home value evaporate. Maybe you even lost your home altogether, or saw your small business wither and die. It’s a hard thing... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Most Trump Voters Didn't Vote to Make Richest Richer, But GOP Congress Is About To Donald Trump’s voters have high hopes that he’ll boost the economy and protect jobs for those who’ve been left behind after three decades of flat or shrinking paychecks. They didn’t vote to make the super-wealthy even wealthier. Even Steve Mnuchin, the Goldman Sachs banker Trump picked to be his... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 17, 2016 Gilded Giving: What Happens When Billionaires Dominate the Charitable Sector The last couple of years have been boom years for philanthropy. Total donations from individuals, foundations, and corporations rose in 2015 to over $373 billion, a 10 percent increase since 2013. But behind this statistic is a troubling trend. The charitable sector is getting a growing number of... Read more |