Chuck Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy. Collins co-founded both United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth. He is the co-author of several books, including Economic Apartheid in America (2005), The Moral Measure of the Economy (2007), and a comic book called the Economic Meltdown Funnies (2009).

Collins is a member of the First Church in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.