by Michelle Mosser | Aug 19, 2020 | News, New Mexico, New Mexico News, Public Bank
Photo: New Mexico broadband coverage map, courtesy New Mexico Broadband Map By Robert Nott, Santa Fe New Mexican | August 17, 2020 42nd in the country for broadband capability. A NM Public Bank could ensure funding for projects that benefit our state, such as...
by Michelle Mosser | Aug 18, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, National, PPP, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: “First Bank of the United States,” National Park Service By Sylvia Chi and Sushil Jacob, Nonprofit Quarterly | August 18, 2020 The pandemic has laid bare the failure of the federal government to justly deal with the economic fallout wrought by a...
by Michelle Mosser | Aug 6, 2020 | News, Economics, PPP, Public Bank, Public Banking, Small Business
Connecticut State Capitol building in Hartford. Photo by Craig Fildes (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Sten Spinella, The Day | August 5, 2020 As Connecticut reckons with the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, lawmakers and community organizers have returned to the...
by Michelle Mosser | Jul 28, 2020 | News, Local Economies, Public Bank, Public Banking
Illustration by Renee Heininger By Gino Fanelli, Rochester City Newspaper | July 24, 2020 Well into a global pandemic that has contributed to one of the worst financial crises in history and further exposed the country’s gaping inequality, Rochester lawmakers...
by Michelle Mosser | Jul 28, 2020 | News, California, Economics, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by South Bend Voice / CC BY 2.0 By Miguel Santiago, CalMatters | July 23, 2020 A bold plan to help California’s local communities: Establish a public bank that would provide economic recovery loans to small businesses and local governments. The...
by Michelle Mosser | Jul 21, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Local Economies, Public Bank, Public Banking, Small Business
Photo by Jeff Turner / CC BY 2.0 By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | July 21, 2020 A state-owned bank could help strengthen New Mexico’s economic recovery in the same ways that it could help California. Paul Pryde is the kind of guy who reads papers...