Closing the Racial Wealth Divide and Surviving Billionaire Disruption

We are living through a time of extreme inequality, as most of the income and wealth gains of the last decade have flowed up to the richest 0.1 percent of households.  This extreme concentration of wealth and power is supercharging the racial wealth divide and disrupting everything we care about including democracy, affordable housing, health, ecology, and well-being.

What do we do about it?  Chuck Collins was “born on third base,” growing up with wealth and advantage as the great grandson of meatpacker Oscar Mayer. But he has spent decades working to reverse inequality and currently directs the program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org.  He is the author of Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good;  The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay…