Stories by Chuck Collins
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and chair of the Working Group on Extreme Inequality, an emerging coalition of religious, business, labor and civic groups concerned about the wealth gap. He is coauthor with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes.
Who says we need to borrow a trillion dollars to save Wall Street from its own excesses?
Posted on Sep 25, 2008
Government action should protect ordinary people, not reward the super-rich and the speculative sectors of the economy.
Posted on Sep 22, 2008
The private-jet perk is -- literally and figuratively -- a high-profile sign of an executive reward system out of control.
Posted on Jun 28, 2008
Underlying our economic crisis is a polarization of income and wealth.
Posted on Jan 24, 2008
Calls "death tax" rhetoric "intellectually dishonest" and "clever, Orwellian and dead wrong."
Posted on Nov 19, 2007
A growing number of business owners are supporting the minimum wage increase, which the Senate may vote on tomorrow.
Posted on Jan 29, 2007
Ordinary people may believe that unprecedented global strife is a bad thing. The barons of Big Oil beg to differ.
Posted on Aug 30, 2006
As the U.S. media distorts the aftermath of the July 2 election, evidence suggests there may be an attempted theft in progress.
Posted on Aug 2, 2006
With 2.5 million votes still to be counted, American news outlets have already declared victory for Mexico's conservative presidential candidate.
Posted on Jul 5, 2006
In an emotional election too close to call, the two leading candidates are each declaring confidence in their victory.
Posted on Jul 3, 2006
The next president of Mexico could be a left populist who puts the needs of ordinary Mexicans ahead of international corporate investors -- if the U.S. refrains from meddling.
Posted on Apr 13, 2006
Wal-Mart's Walton family now has 771,287 times more money than the median U.S. household. What gives?
Posted on Oct 24, 2005
The case for abolishing the federal estate tax is a sham, deflated by Congress' own research and investigative reporting.
Posted on Sep 15, 2005
Instead of taking steps that would strengthen our democracy, we're heading backward to the wealth inequalities of a century ago.
Posted on Feb 3, 2003
Read an open letter from one of the organizers of the successful battle to preserve the estate tax.
Posted on Jun 13, 2002
