Monday, October 28, 2013

Oscar Mayer's great grandson

Chuck Collins was set to inherit a fortune from his Oscar Meyer family.  Instead he gave the money away and dedicates his life's work to studying and remedying economic inequality. 
Chuck Collins (born 1959) is an author and a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is also co-founder of Wealth for Common Good. He is the great-grandson of 19th-century meatpacking mogul Oscar Mayer and the grandson of the U.S. pianist and composer Edward Joseph Collins, as well as Michael Collins, liberator of Ireland. 


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