Thrive! Living Wage Coalition and Pine River Library will host author and activist Chuck Collins, as part of Thrive!’s 2018 Education Program. At this event Collins will discuss his book Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good.

With the heart of an agitator and the soul of a storyteller, inequality expert Chuck Collins upends our assumptions about America’s deep wealth divide. A divide that, for the first time in recent history: locks the nation’s youth into a future defined by their class and wealth at birth; limits our ability to address crises like climate change; and creates a world that no one, not even the rich, will ultimately want to live in. In Born on Third Base, Collins busts the myths that define our views of rich and poor, and offers bold new solutions for bridging the economic divide and re-engaging the wealthy in rebuilding communities for a resilient future.

Collins’ work on inequality has been covered by The Nation, The Guardian, Forbes, International Business Times, Wired, Los Angeles Times, Politico, CNBC, Black Enterprise Magazine, and other national and international media outlets. His previous books include 99 to 1, Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr.), and The Moral Measure of the Economy. He cofounded Wealth for the Common Good (now merged with the Patriotic Millionaires), United for a Fair Economy, and Divest-Invest.