Editing Chuck Collins (section)

{{Short description|American economics writer}}
{{for|the American football player and coach|Chuck Collins (American football)}}
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'''Chuck Collins''' (born October 19, 1959) is an American author and a senior scholar at the [[Institute for Policy Studies]] in [[Washington, DC]], where he directs the Program on [[Economic inequality|Inequality]] and the Common Good. He is also co-founder of Wealth for Common Good. He is an expert on economic inequality in the US, and has pioneered efforts to bring together investors and business leaders to speak out publicly against corporate practices and economic policies that increase economic inequality.

Collins is the great-grandson of [[Oscar F. Mayer]], the founder of the [[Oscar Mayer]] meat processing brand.