Chuck Collins
Co-Editor at Inequality.org
Campaigner @IPS_DC, co-editor, https://t.co/Acd6QzYkgE, author of Altar to an Erupting Sun (May 2023), The Wealth Hoarders, Born on Third Base. Dad, cyclist, gardener.
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1 week ago |
25newsnow.com | Chuck Collins
Active weather on the way including possible severe thunderstormsShort term, it’ll be windy and warm Friday with highs approaching 80. A cold front will bring scattered showers and thunderstorms late Friday night into the wee hours of Saturday morning. Easter weekend looks wet with periods of rain Saturday and Sunday. The pattern starts drying out and warming up next week with highs in the 70s by Tuesday. Published: Apr. 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM CDT|Updated: seconds agoShare on X (formerly Twitter)
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1 week ago |
shepherd.com | Carl Rhodes |Ingrid Robeyns |Chuck Collins |Peter Goodman
Ingrid Robeyns opens her book provocatively. She poses the question: ‘Can a person be too rich?’ Her answer is ‘yes’! I value this book because it opens bold new ways of thinking about what can be done about inequality. Robeyns coined the term ‘limitarianism’ to explore how democratic societies might enforce specific caps on wealth. This limitarianism is, for Robeyns, a ‘regulative ideal’ that should inform government policy and regulation.
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peoplesworld.org | Chuck Collins
Their biggest cuts appear to be in the Large Business and International division, which audits wealthy individuals and companies with more than $10 million in assets. These are essentially the workers who make sure billionaires and corporations pay their taxes. Musk and Trump claim to be sage businessmen, but it would be hard to find a business owner in America who would dismantle their accounts receivable department when their wealthiest clients still owe them money.
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2 weeks ago |
scheerpost.com | Chuck Collins |Helen Flannery |Dan Petegorsky |Bella DeVaan
By Chuck Collins, Helen Flannery, Dan Petegorsky, and Bella DeVaan / Inequality.orgThirty years ago, donor-advised funds (or DAFs) were relatively obscure giving vehicles housed in a small set of community foundations. Today, they’re central players in U.S. charitable giving — and have rocketed to dominance. DAFs now take in a sixth of all individual giving each year. And nine of the top 20 recipients of charitable gifts in the country — including the top three — are DAF sponsors.
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inequality.org | Chuck Collins |Helen Flannery |Dan Petegorsky |Bella DeVaan
Our Charity Reform Initiative’s first annual Independent Report on DAFs demystifies donor-advised funds and their impacts on charitable giving, fair taxation, and our democracy itself. The DAF LandscapeDAFs are financial accounts managed by nonprofit organizations, which are called “sponsors.” Donors can give money to a personal DAF account and take an immediate tax deduction for that gift, since they’re technically giving to a public charity.
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