by Jennifer Dixon | Mar 29, 2021 | Commercial Banking, Local Economies, National, News
Photo by throgers, Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) By Scott Horsley, NPR | March 26, 2021 A NM Public Bank would support and grow our local banks through loan partnerships George Holland, the mayor of Moorhead, Miss., remembers the feeling when he heard that Regions Bank was...
by Jennifer Dixon | Mar 8, 2021 | Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico News, News
Photo by Gabriel Campos, Santa Fe New Mexican By Daniel J. Chacon, Santa Fe New Mexican | March 4, 2021 A Public Bank for New Mexico would prioritize and invest in local development projects such as infrastructure New Mexico’s roadways are in terrible...
by Jennifer Dixon | Mar 1, 2021 | News, Local Economies, National, Public Bank, Public Banking
Photo by Bill Smith / CC BY 2.0 By Oscar Perry Abello, Next City | February 26, 2021 As of February 2020, counting currency in circulation, deposits in bank and credit union checking accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and money market...
by Jennifer Dixon | Jan 12, 2021 | News, Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico 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 Jennifer Dixon | Dec 9, 2020 | News, Local Economies, New Mexico, New Mexico News
From left, Bryan Romero, from Springer, Sebastian Aguiera and Joseph Salazar, from Santa Fe, work with other YouthWorks staff Tuesday to prepare meals for about 160 people at the El Rancho de Las Golondrinas commercial kitchen. The work is part of an effort to...
by Jennifer Dixon | Dec 8, 2020 | News, COVID-19, Economics, Local Economies
Judy Wicks. Photo courtesy Where’s Wicks? Newsletter By Judy Wicks, Where’s Wicks? Newsletter | December 8, 2020 Public Banking can play a strong role in supporting local community development. The 2020 election has left us a deeply divided...