by Anthony Colombo | Feb 4, 2018 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
by JOSHUA SABATINI | sfexaminer.com | 2/4/18 San Francisco has assembled a 16-member task force to study launching a public bank to fund affordable housing development, low-interest loans for low-income residents and cutting ties with the Wall Street banks that do not...
by Anthony Colombo | Jan 25, 2018 | Local Economies, Public Banking, Videos, Videos National & PBI Videos
Plan ‘V’: A Vermont Public Bank–Funding Our Future A 2018 documentary from Vermonters for a New Economy featuring public bank advocates Gwendolyn Hallsmith, Henry Jacqz and State Representative Valerie...
by Anthony Colombo | Jan 18, 2018 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking
by gophouse.org | 1/18/18 State Rep. Martin Howrylak, of Troy, today formally introduced a bipartisan package of bills that would create and maintain a state bank. The bank would be authorized to engage in limited banking activities, including the facilitation of...
by Anthony Colombo | Jan 13, 2018 | National, News, Public Banking
by ADELE PETERS | Fast Company | 1/8/18 When the movement to push the city of Los Angeles from keeping its money at Wells Fargo grew in 2017–as in other cities that decided to pull money from the bank because of its fake accounts scandal and funding of the Dakota...
by Anthony Colombo | Jan 7, 2018 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
BY DEONNA ANDERSON | DECEMBER 28, 2017 In Portland, Oregon, a movement is slowly building to establish a public bank. After debating divestment from companies whose practices might be harmful to people or the environment, the City Council voted in April to stop...
by Anthony Colombo | Dec 9, 2017 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
By Joshua Sabatini | San Francisco Examiner | December 3, 2017 San Francisco could become the first city in the nation to launch a public bank. Supervisors Malia Cohen and Sandra Fewer are advancing the idea of establishing a municipal bank, which would end The City’s...