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 29, 2020 | News, Commercial Banking, Economics
Photo: Bank of America tower in New York City, NY. By David Phan, Flickr. By Morning Edition, National Public Radio| Apr 22, 2020 Banks handling the government’s $349 billion loan program for small businesses made more than $10 billion in fees — even as...
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 27, 2020 | News, Economics, National, Small Business
Photo: The Union Bank & Trust branch at 27th Street and Pine Lake Road in Lincoln, Nebraska. Courtesy hustlermoneyblog.com. By Jeanne Whalen and Renae Merle, The Washington Post | Apr 22, 2020 Working from home, employees hustled to process small-business...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 24, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: First lady Eleanor Roosevelt talking in June 1936 with the superintendent of a waterfront park project in Des Moines, Iowa, sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. Courtesy FDR Presidential Library & Museum. By Timothy Knowles and Ameya Pawar,...