by Michelle Mosser | Jan 12, 2021 | Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico News, News, Small Business
James, an employee of Diverse Office Supply, packs Primo crayons. Diverse Office Supply landed a $5 million contract to supply the City of Albuquerque with office supplies in 2019, a contract that was responsible for Diverse Office Supply riding out COVID-19 (so far)....
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 7, 2021 | Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor, Albuquerque Journal | January 6, 2020 In “Turning the Economic Corner Will Take Teamwork” Joe Farr asks, “Why do we have the second highest poverty rate in the U.S., much higher than our neighboring states?” His conclusion is not...
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 5, 2021 | New Mexico, New Mexico News, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Graphic by Shutterstock By Doug Lynam, Santa Fe New Mexican | January 5, 2020 New Mexico is No. 1. In payday lenders per capita, that is. According to a study by California State University, Northridge, we have almost 10 times more payday lenders than we do...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 29, 2020 | COVID-19, National, News, PPP, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Jorge Salvador on Unsplash By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | December 29, 2020 Money. Where is it? Where does it come from? Who is working on ways to get more of it to where cities need it most? When I look back at 2020, I see these are the questions...
by Michelle Mosser | Dec 18, 2020 | Economics, National, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo courtesy Pixabay.com By Ellen Brown, Web of Debt Blog | December 18, 2020 A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of...