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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