by Michelle Mosser | Jan 12, 2021 | News, Economics, Environment, New Mexico, New Mexico News, Renewable Energy
A scarecrow stands in front of turbines on a wind farm in Lovington in 2012. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal.) By Kevin Robinson-Avila, Albuquerque Journal | January 12, 2020 Funding renewable infrastructure with a NM State Bank would keep NM revenue working...
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 12, 2021 | News, Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico News, Small Business
James, an employee of Diverse Office Supply, packs Primo crayons. Diverse Office Supply landed a $5 million contract to supply the City of Albuquerque with office supplies in 2019, a contract that was responsible for Diverse Office Supply riding out COVID-19 (so far)....
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 5, 2021 | News, New Mexico, New Mexico News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Graphic by Shutterstock By Doug Lynam, Santa Fe New Mexican | January 5, 2020 New Mexico is No. 1. In payday lenders per capita, that is. According to a study by California State University, Northridge, we have almost 10 times more payday lenders than we do...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 29, 2020 | News, COVID-19, National, PPP, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | December 29, 2020 Money. Where is it? Where does it come from? Who is working on ways to get more of it to where cities need it most? When I look back at 2020, I see these are the questions...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 18, 2020 | News, Economics, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo courtesy Pixabay.com By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog | December 18, 2020 A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 15, 2020 | News, New Mexico News, Public Bank, Public Banking
By Madison Staten, KRWG | December 15, 2020 The Alliance for Local Economic Prosperity is calling on the Las Cruces City Council to approve a resolution in support of a public bank in New Mexico.Angela Merkert, the executive director of the Alliance for Local Economic...