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| Title: | Burlington-- An Evening with Chuck Collins | | Date: | 11/5/2025 (Wednesday) | | Address: | 89 Church St, Burlington, VT, United States, Vermont 05401 | | Location: | Burlington, VT | | Hours: | Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 7:00PM EST | | Cost/Cover: | See Details | | Contact Info: | See Details |
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A scathing expos of the hidden impact of Americas ultra-wealthy on our social, economic, political, and ecological landscape.
Phoenix Books Burlington is thrilled to host celebrated Vermont author Chuck Collins to celebrate the release of his new book, Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet.
Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he coedits Inequality.org. He is the author of several books, including Born on Third Base, The Wealth Hoarders, Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr), and Economic Apartheid in America and Burned by Billionaires (both from The New Press). He lives in Vermont.
About the book:
Even if you dont begrudge the ultra-rich their multiple vacation homes, fancy boats, and private jets, the truth is that billionaire power touches you where you live, what you pay for housing, what you eat, and what news you consume. In this explosive new book, Chuck Collins, a leading scholar of economic inequality, chronicles how the actions of the top .01 have severe consequences for the rest of us.
Illustrating with humorous cartoons and shocking graphics how we are all burned by billionaires, Collins demonstrates how the ber-wealthy have rigged tax policies in their favor, shifting costs onto working people while reducing public funding for schools, roads, and other essential infrastructure. In a world of have-yachts and have-nots, billionaire travel habits are literally burning up the planet, with private jets and boats the size of apartment buildings pumping disproportionate amounts of carbon into our atmosphere. The wealthiest peoples investments in luxury skyscrapers and hoarding of residential real estate are shrinking the pool of affordable housing, pushing the American dream out of reach for many families. Acquisitions of health care by venture capitalists are causing hospitals to close and even the cost of your dog |
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