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Chuck Collins at Grace Cathedral

Chuck Collins

The great grandson of meatpacker Oscar Mayer, inequality expert, activist and author of Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good tackles the question: Does...

Why the Rich Should Reverse Inequality

Chuck Collins

An excerpt from the just released, Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good, reprinted by The Nation: The extreme levels of inequality in our society are...

Collins on the Panama Papers in The Nation

Chuck Collins

Post Carbon Board member Chuck Collins article on wealth inequality and the Panama Papers was published in The Nation. From the article:  As global wealth concentrates in fewer hands, the world’s wealthy are shifting trillions to offshore havens...

Remembering Martin Sabo

Chuck Collins

Minnesota Congressman Martin Olav Sabo died earlier this week, after retiring from Congress in 2006. Rep. Sabo was lead sponsor of legislation called the Income-Equity Act, which he championed for almost a decade. Sabo’s Act would have eliminated the...

Collins quoted on protesting pipelines at PRI

Chuck Collins

Post Carbon Board Member Chuck Collins was quoted in this article on protesting planned pipelines in Boston. From the article: Chuck Collins, one of the Boston protest’s organizers, draws inspiration from a sense of collective mission. “I kind of...

Wealthiest One Percent, Come Home!

Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins believes that extreme wealth inequality and our global ecological crisis are bad for everyone, including those with great wealth. He invites all of us — but especially the wealthy of the United States — to come home,...

Have We Hit Peak Wealth Inequality?

Chuck Collins

20 billionaires now have more wealth than half U.S. population When will we become alarmed about so much wealth in so few hands? The Great Recession and its anemic recovery only deepened the economic inequality that’s drawn so much...