and nortel's chuck collins. he's a researcher, campaign, storyteller, write a basic institute for policy studies where he co-edits inequality.org. is written extensively on wealth inequality in previous books like 99 to one, wealth and our commonwealth. and economic apartheid in america, as well as for the nation, the american prospect, and numerous other magazine and news outlets. he grew up in a 1% and has, as the great grandson of meatpacker oscar mayer, he gave away his inheritance has been working to -- in the process he cofounded numerous initiatives including well for the common good, now much with patriotic millionaires, united for a fair economy, and the vast invest. so again thank everybody for coming and going to go in and turn over to chuck. [applause] >> you don't need me to use that, right? okay. thank you, cody. and thank you for coming out on this evening. this is the first event i'm doing to the book is published tomorrow formally, so thank you for coming out to his unpublished book event. i wan

again, we are so happy to be here and were going to host chuck collins. he's a researcher and campaigner and storyteller and writer based at the institute for policy studies were he coed it's inequality.org. he has written extensively in wealth inequality in previous books like 99 - 1, wealth in our commonwealth with bill gates senior, and economic apartheid in america and the american prospect and numerous other magazines and news outlets. he grew up in the 1% and is the great grandson of meatpacker oscar mayer, at age 26 he gave away his wealth and he has been working to strengthen communities.s. in the process he cofoundedd numerous initiatives, united for a fair economy and divest, invest. thank you everyone for coming. i will turn it over to chuck. [applause] >> thank you cody. thank you for coming out on thi. evening. this is the first event that i'm doing.ent i'm the book is actually published tomorrow formally, so thank you for coming out to an unpublished book event, and i want to recognize morris pearl who wrote the forward to this book.he he is

so, again, we're so happy to be here in order to host chuck collins. he's a researcher, campaigner, storyteller and writer based at the institute for policy studies where he co-edits inequality.org. he has written extensively on wealth inequality in previous books like "99 to 1: wealth and our commonwealth," with bill gates sr.. and "economic apartheid in america," as well as for the nation, the american prospect and numerous other magazines and news outlets. collins grew up in the 1%, and as the great grandson of meatpacker oscar mayer, when he was 26, he gave away his inheritance, and he's been working to erase inequality since 1982. and in the process he co-founded wealth for the common good now merged with patriotic millionaires, united for a fair economy and divest investment. so, again, thank you, everybody, for coming, and i'm going to go ahead and turn it over to chuck. [applause] >> you don't need me to use that, right? okay. thank you, cody. and thank you for coming out on this evening, and i want to -- this is the first event that i'm doing.

chuck collins will be the author he's the great-grandson of meatpacker oscar meyer and he talks about wealth inequality and his decision to give away much of his inheritance. >> of morning welcome to the cato institute. i am a senior policy analyst and also editor of human progress which is an educational website that tries to put together as many statistics as human well-being as possible in order to present to our users and our more real picture of the world than the headlines would suggest thinking about the headlines, it is perhaps an understatement to say that we live in an era of great pessimism. this pessimism is not distributed evenly across the world. it is felt very acutely in many western democracies including ours here in the united states. some three quarters of americans believe that the united states is going in the wrong direction. the choices that the electorate will be presented with come november exaggerate, rather than suit the national feeling of impending doom. americans feel poor even though our gdp. capita has never been higher. we feel less safe even though in

new team includes my next guest, congressman chris collins, the first member of congress to endorse donald trump. welcome back and congratulations. >> chuck and before we start, i want to thank the veterans today on veterans day for their service to the country and tell you how honored i was to present five gold medals to world war ii tus keegee air men. >> that are is amazing. any day you get to spend with a world war ii veteran, you need to cherish. they have unbelievable stories. let me start with your role. can you explain what your is what what advise you are being asked to give? >> i will be a member on executive council along with donald's kids and ivanka's husband and great other members. it's going to be a job of vetting the candidates for the 4,000 or so positions. 350 in the west wing. we will see when the new executive director, how we divvy that out. none of that has been detailed. we put this together today. when we are back monday in d.c., we will detail more of it out. i'm honored to being asked to serve on this council. >> one of the challenges i feel like you will face is similar to what barack obama faced when he got he