by Jennifer Dixon | Apr 7, 2021 | California, COVID-19, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Access to basic banking services is under new focus as California seeks to address economic and racial inequity during the pandemic. (Sam Hodgson / San Diego Union-Tribune) By Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times | April 6, 2021 Escalating overdraft charges....
by Jennifer Dixon | Apr 2, 2021 | California, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Eduardo Soares on Unsplash By Jana Kadah, Bay City News Service | March 31, 2021 California is presenting a different public banking model than New Mexico’s, which would not offer personal bank accounts Five California legislators are...
by Jennifer Dixon | Mar 30, 2021 | California, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
California capitol building in Sacramento. Photo by Mathieu Thouvenin, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal | March 29, 2021 Los Angeles Assemblymember Miguel Santiago has introduced legislation that would form a state panel to...
by Jennifer Dixon | Mar 12, 2021 | California, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Illustration: Chiara Di Martino By Ian Firstenberg, El Tecolote | March 11, 2021 The new ordinance seeks to establish the preliminary infrastructure for a future public bank. As businesses and workers around San Francisco struggle to keep up with the...
by Jennifer Dixon | Feb 23, 2021 | News, California, HB 236, New Mexico, Public Bank, Public Banking, SB 313
Photo credit: Free-Photos / Pixabay By Glenn Daigon, Who.What.Why. | February 17, 2021 Ever since the Great Recession of 2008, Wall Street’s name has been mud with the American public. One recent poll showed that 64 percent of those surveyed believe “the stock market...
by Jennifer Dixon | Jan 27, 2021 | News, California, Public Bank, Public Banking
San Francisco Sup. Dean Preston (courtesy 48Hills) By Tim Redmond, 48Hills | January 26, 2021 At least six supes on board with visionary plan that has never been done in a city Six San Francisco supervisors spoke today about their support for a public bank,...