by Michelle Mosser | May 6, 2020 | News, Commercial Banking, COVID-19, Local Economies, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Beaver’s Cafe in Minto, ND. (By Eric Hylden/Grand Forks Herald) By Peter Rudegeair, Orla McCaffrey and Liz Hoffman, The Washington Post | May 4, 2020 Where big banks are favoring certain customers for PPP loans and delaying loan-taking processes...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 29, 2020 | News, California, COVID-19, Local Economies, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Debbie Notkin by JCF By Debbie Notikin, Post News Group| Apr 22, 2020 The COVID-19 crisis is shining a bright and unforgiving light on the glaring economic and racial inequalities we live with every day. Public banking is a major step toward a more just and...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 28, 2020 | News, Economics, Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico News, Small Business
Photo: Engineers for 3D Glass Solutions work in a clean room in 2018. The company, which manufactures semiconductor chips, secured $12 million in capital last year. (Roberto E. Rosales, Albuquerque Journal) By Kevin Robinson-Avila, Albuquerque Journal | April 27 2020...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 27, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico News
Photo: Small businesses on Albuquerque’s Central Avenue. Photo by Ken Lund. By Pilar Martinez, Albuquerque Journal | April 27, 2020 Weekends. Nights. Eighteen-hour work days. These, believe it or not, have become the new “bankers’ hours” amid...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 20, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Local Economies, New Mexico
Photo: Employees at work at local toilet paper provider Roses Southwest Papers in Albuquerque (Image courtesy Roses Southwest Papers) By Valerie Vande Panne, Next City | Apr 20, 2020 At a time when businesses pivot from making booze to hand sanitizer, and from sewing...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 10, 2020 | News, Economics, Local Economies, National
Photo by Corey Taratuta By April Simpson, The Day | Apr 10, 2020 Every part of the country will feel the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis. But the small and isolated rural areas that lagged during the economic boom may fare better, relatively...