Chuck Collins is author of The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions. He is director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org.
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Jubilee for Wall Street?
A Problem of Riches
Why concentrated wealth and the growing gap between the rich and the rest of us are not only bad for our economy but threaten democracy itself.
Portraits of the Near Poor
The gospel calls us to a “preferential option for the poor” to address the conditions of the 37 million adults and children who live in poverty in the United States.
Life on the Edge
More than four decades ago, Michael Harrington held a mirror up to Americas self-image of affluence with his searing picture of poverty, The Other America. Harringtons book was read widelyby President John Kennedy, among othersand fueled the moral and intellectual resolve behind
Shrink, Shift, Shaft
Bush's tax policy is aimed at drastically reducing government services and moving the tax burden to poorer wage-earners. The result: a case of "trickle-down injustice."
Tax the Rich?
William Gates Sr.—whose son is Microsoft founder Bill Gates—joins with co-author Chuck Collins to argue that the wealthiest among us have an obligation to pay their fair share.