by Michelle Mosser | Jul 13, 2020 | News, Economics, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Ameya Pawar (Rich Hein/ Sun-Times) By Mark Brown, Chicago Sun-Times| July 10, 2020 A New Mexico state public bank would accept and invest public funds, not offering retail bank accounts but rather supporting community banks and credit unions. ...
by Michelle Mosser | Jul 13, 2020 | News, California, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo: Trinity Tran/Twitter By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams | July 10, 2020 “If California is serious about addressing racial and income inequities, we must create a banking system that centers people not profits.” In a move advocacy groups...
by Michelle Mosser | Jul 9, 2020 | News, Bank of North Dakota, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo via Bank of North Dakota, LinkedIn By Bank of North Dakota | July 7, 2020 Imagine if New Mexico could realize the substantial profit from its own public bank that North Dakota’s public bank generated for their state in 2019 The state-owned Bank of...
by Michelle Mosser | Jul 8, 2020 | News, Economics, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Ken Lund/CC BY-SA 2.0 By Ameya Pawar, Harish I. Patel, The Chicago Reporter | July 7, 2020 Local and state governments are facing massive budget deficits after economically sensitive revenue streams tanked as a result of the extreme but necessary...
by Michelle Mosser | Jun 25, 2020 | News, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Senator James Sanders of Queens is the lead sponsor of the Senate’s public-banking bill. Image courtesy CityLimits. By Sadef Ali Kully, CityLimits | June 25, 2020 Now is the time to create a public banking system as the city prepares for deep budget cuts amid...
by Michelle Mosser | Jun 16, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, Environment, Public Bank, Public Banking
Image: November 2019, NJ Gov. Phil Murphy holds a news conference to announce an executive order creating a board to develop an implementation plan for a public bank. (Governor’s Office, via Twitter) By Ed Potosnak, The Star-Ledger | June 16, 2020 New...