by Michelle Mosser | 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 Michelle Mosser | Feb 23, 2021 | California, HB 236, New Mexico, News, 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 Michelle Mosser | Jan 27, 2021 | California, News, 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,...
by Michelle Mosser | Jan 25, 2021 | California, News, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo of San Diego by John Getchel, Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) By David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune | January 23, 2021 San Diego city leaders want to explore creating California’s first government-run public bank, which could loan out tens of millions of...
by Michelle Mosser | Oct 30, 2020 | Bank of North Dakota, California, Economics, Local Economies, Postal Banking, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Greg Nash By Emily Stewart, Vox | October 30, 2020 A public option, but for banking. That’s what Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are proposing in a new bill unveiled on Friday. The Public Banking Act, first shared with Vox, wouldn’t...
by Michelle Mosser | Oct 12, 2020 | California, News, Postal Banking
Photo by Greg Nash By Thomas M. Hanna and Jeff Olson, The Hill | October 9, 2020 Postal banking would offer a personal public banking option to everyone with a postal address The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is under attack and at grave risk. But with that...