California Leaders Propose Nation’s First Public Banking Option
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...
Legislator seeks to create free banking services for Californians
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...
San Francisco draws closer to a public bank with widely supported reinvestment ordinance
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...
San Francisco may usher in a new era of public banking
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...
San Francisco moves a big step closer to a public bank
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,...Upcoming Events
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