by Michelle Mosser | May 20, 2021 | COVID-19, News, Public Bank, Public Banking, Small Business
Segun Idowu, via Twitter By Jon Chesto, Boston Globe | May 19, 2021 Business group backs setting aside $50 million a year to fund a state-owned lender The Black Economic Council of Massachusetts is throwing its newfound political muscle behind an unusual...
by Michelle Mosser | May 17, 2021 | Commercial Banking, Environment, National, News, Renewable Energy
Photo by Brian Gratwicke, Flickr (CC BY 2.0) By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | May 17, 2021 A small bank’s enduring legacy begins with the mission-driven question, “Where does your money spend the night?” You could chronicle the history of New Resource...
by Michelle Mosser | May 14, 2021 | National, News, Postal Banking
Photo by Brian Lipiner, myrecorujournal.com By Editorial Board, Bloomberg | May 13, 2021 The right kind of arrangement would help the USPS as well as millions of unbanked Americans. Should U.S. post offices also be banks? Lately, a group of legislators...
by Michelle Mosser | May 13, 2021 | News, Public Bank, Public Banking, Renewable Energy
“Pedernales Electric Cooperative Christmas Lights,” Mike Rastiello (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Wan R. Smith and Philip Fracica, Nonprofit Quarterly | May 12, 2021 Rural Electric Cooperatives (REC) were originally like public infrastructure banks for supplying...
by Michelle Mosser | May 6, 2021 | National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Guadalupe County Hospital in Santa Rosa, NM. Many rural NM hospitals are struggling right now. Photo courtesy Guadalupe County Hospital website (www.gchnm.org). By Stacy Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance | April 20, 2021 Testimony before the U.S....