by Michelle Mosser | May 4, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, Environment, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Oakland bank vault (Courtesy Wikipedia) By Rick Girling, Post News Group | April 30, 2020 The response to COVID-19 has laid bare, once again, the glaring economic inequalities we live with every day. An essential new institution is public banking — new...
by Michelle Mosser | May 4, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, Public Bank, Public Banking, Small Business
Photo: Sixth Street, Austin, Texas. (Photo courtesy Institute for Local Self-Reliance) By Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance | April 29, 2020 A significantly larger number of federal relief loans are reaching small businesses in states where...
by Michelle Mosser | May 4, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Downtown Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Ken Lund, Flickr) By Michael Brennan, The Washington Post | April 29, 2020 Michael Brennan is chair of the Public Banks Project of the Democracy Policy Network and is part of an interstate coalition of policy...
by Michelle Mosser | Apr 30, 2020 | News, Bank of North Dakota, COVID-19, Economics, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: The nation’s only state-owned bank serves as a model for how the U.S. is fighting the economic damage of the pandemic. (Photo by Kaya / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | Apr 29, 2020 Bankers generally don’t like surprises. But as CEO at...
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 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,...