Chuck Collins: Reversing Wealth Inequality

We are living in a time of extreme inequality, and few places are more unequal than the United States. America’s 20 richest people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the rest of the population combined. Scholar and activist Chuck Collins argues that these inequalities have their roots in forty years of the powerful and wealthy rigging the entire system in their favor. He proposes a wide range of public policies to roll back decades of accelerating inequality, analyzes the barriers to progress, and shows how transformative local campaigns can be made into a national movement for change.

Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org. He is author of, “Is Inequality in America Irreversible?”; “Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality”; “Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good”; and “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It”.

Recorded at Straub Hall on the UO campus Oregon Humanities Center 4/17/19 by Todd Boyle

Thanks to the Tzedek Lecture in the Humanities series on The Common Good

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