Chuck Collins

Chuck Collins is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. He’s the lead author of the new IPS and Climate Accountability Research Project report Fossil Fuel Philanthropy: How Taxpayer-Subsidized Charities Promote Climate Change Disinformation and Stall Urgent Action. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and the racial wealth divide and author of over ten books and dozens of reports about inequality, climate disruption, philanthropy, the racial wealth divide, affordable housing, and billionaire wealth dynasties. His forthcoming book, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Ruins Our Lives and Planet, will be published early in 2025 by The New Press. With multiple books published – Altar to an Erupting Sun (Green Writers Press), The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Spend Millions to Hide Trillions (Polity Books), Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good (Chelsea Green) – Collins examines climate disruption, unmasks the industry of professional enablers that assist the ultra-wealthy to hide wealth and dodge taxes and explores the increasing economic inequality divide. He is also a founding member of the Patriotic Millionaires. In 1995, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) to raise the profile of the inequality issue and support popular education and organizing efforts to address inequality. See an archive of Chuck’s writing, videos and commentaries.