Editing Chuck Collins (section)

==Career==
Between 1983 and 1991, Collins worked at the Institute for Community Economics, based in [[Greenfield, Massachusetts]], providing technical advice to [[community land trust]]s and [[mobile home]] resident cooperatives. Between 1991 and 1995, he was director of the HOME Coalition in Massachusetts and a field organizer for the Tax Equity Alliance of Massachusetts (now the Mass Budget and Policy Center). In 1995, he co-founded, with [[Felice Yeskel]] and S.M. Miller, [[United for a Fair Economy]] in [[Boston, Massachusetts]], a left-leaning national organization devoted to education about growing income and wealth inequality.<ref name=UUWorld/><ref name="Forbes"/>

In 2005, he became a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits the web site, Inequality.org, and directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good.  In 2008, he cofounded Wealth for the Common Good, which subsequently merged in 2015 with the [[Patriotic Millionaires]].

At the Institute for Policy Studies, Collins research has looked at income and wealth inequality and the racial wealth divide. He has co-authored a number of studies including "Billionaire Bonanza" <ref>{{cite web|last1=Collins|first1=Chuck|title=Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us|date=2 December 2015|url=http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/|publisher=Institute for Policy Studies}}</ref> exploring the share of wealth flowing to the top 1 percent and [[Forbes 400]], and the "Ever Growing Gap",<ref>{{cite web|title=Ever-Growing Gap|date=8 August 2016|url=http://www.ips-dc.org/report-ever-growing-gap/|publisher=Institute of Policy Studies}}</ref> which examines the future of the racial wealth divide.